Week |
Course Content |
Week 1 |
{02/18} Poetry (UP): Introduction p1-16; handouts |
Week 2 |
{02/25} Altieri, 1-10; UP: R. Frost; L. Hughes; Jesse James (17-23); handout: Ezra Pound |
Week 3 |
{03/04} Altieri, 11-28 (Bergson & Pound); UP, 68-75 |
Week 4 |
{03/11} Altieri, 29-51 (Imagism); Pound, Williams, H.D. |
Week 5 |
{03/18} Altieri, 52-68 (Lacan); Eliot’s ”The Waste Land” |
Week 6 |
{03/25} Altieri, 68-96; the Poetics of Impersonality - Eliot, Loy, Moore |
Week 7 |
{04/01} Altieri, 96-125; Williams, Oppen, Hughes (handout) |
Week 8 |
{04/08} Altieri Chpt 5; Wallace Stevens(handout) |
Week 9 |
{04/15}Altieri Chpt 5; Wallace Stevens/W.H. Auden |
Week 10 |
{04/22} MIDTERM Roundtable |
Week 11 |
{04/29} Altieri, 157-171: Robert Lowell (UP 39), Elizabeth Bishop,
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Week 12 |
{05/06} Clewell, essay; female “Confessional poets”--Plath, Sexton, etc. |
Week 13 |
{05/13} Altieri, 171-92; Adrienne Rich, |
Week 14 |
{05/20 “A man’s POV”: Nemerov, William Stafford, Robert Hayden, James Dickey
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Week 15 |
{05/27} Altieri, 200-214: John Ashbery |
Week 16 |
{06/03} Contemporary poets: Louise Gluck, Billy Collins
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Week 17 |
Open Topic |
Week 18 |
{06/10} Review |