English 25.2

Course Schedule

Fall 2001

August
September
October
November
December

August

W 22 Intro to Class. Policies. What is Poetry?  
F 24 How to Read Poems.  
M 27 [Ars Poetica.] Handout on Greek/Roman Poetry. How to Use Discussion Forum  
W 29 Petrarchan and Elizabethan Sonnets.  

F 31

Shakespeare: Love and Language.

 

September

M 3 Labor Day  
W 5 [Sidney's Defense] Herrick, Marvell, Herbert  
F 7 Donne: Profane and Sacred Loves  
M 10 [Preface to Lyrical Ballads] Blake, Wordsworth, Byron  
W 12 Shelley, Keats  
F 14 Whitman: The Expansive Romantic  
M 17 Tennyson, E. Browning, R. Browning, Rossetti  
W 19 Hardy, Hopkins, Arnold, Housman  
F 21 Dickinson: Inward Moves  
M 24 Frost, Milay, H.D., Pound  
W 26 Stevens, Williams  

F 28

Yeats: Mysticism and Modernism  

October

M 1 Eliot [Tradition and the Individual Talent]  
W 3 Dunbar, Toomer, Cullen  
F 5 Hughes: Blues for a Dream Deferred.  
M 8 Auden, Roethke, Bishop [Draft Date 1]
W 10 Machado, Vallejo  
F 12 University Day  
M 15 Neruda: Image, Symbol, Meaning [Due Date 1]
W 17 Neruda, continued.  
F 19 Fall Break  
M 22 Thomas, Lowell  
W 24 Ginsberg, Dugan, Hecht  
F 26 Sexton: Breaking the Silence  
M 29 Larkin, O'Hara  
W 31 Simpson, Stafford, Bly [Draft Date 2]

November

F 2 Wright: Ethics of Empathy  
M 5 Brooks, Walker, Lorde, Giovanni  
W 7 Levertov, Piercy [Due Date 2]
F 9 Alvarez: Crossing Borders  
M 12 Slam (movie)  
W 14 Slam (discussion)  
F 16 Student's Choice: Rumi  
M 19 Michael Chitwood, The Weave Room, pp. 3-31. [Draft Date 3]
W 21 Thanksgiving  
F 23 Thanksgiving  
M 26 Chitwood, The Weave Room, pp. 31-82. [Due Date 3]
W 28 Michael Chitwood guest lecture.  
F 30 Best American Poetry  

December

M 3 Best American Poetry [Draft of Book Review]
W 5 Best American Poetry  
F 7 Last Day [Book Review Due] [Deadline for Reading Reports]
F 17 Final Exam. High noon.