Note:
You are required to keep a journal in this course. Two entries a week (150 word minimum per entry). In each entry, I will expect a scholarly, thoughtful response to the poetry, discussion, or lecture material of the week. I will collect the journal twice: once at mid-term and once at the end of the semester.
Final Essay is due
on May 7 by midnight US EST/EDT. Submitted via the Assignments link as attachment (Microsoft Word, or Rich Text Format) on the
course menu.
Unit
reading assignments should be completed and
ready to discuss in class by the start of Tuesday
classes.
In-class exercises count towards participation.
 January 13 - 19 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit
1: Introduction(s)
Students
familiarize themselves with course website,
textbooks and requirements.
Assignments:
Read
and be ready to discuss, "Introduction."
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Unit
2: January 20 - 26 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 2: Beginnings
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Whitman: "Song of Myself," and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd."
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Unit
3: January 27 - February 2 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 3: The Other Romantic
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Emily Dickinson
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Unit
4: February 3 - February 09 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 4 : What's Real?
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Edwin Arlington Robinson, and James Weldon, Amy Lowell.
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5: February 10 - 16 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit
5: Form and the Dance
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens
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Unit
6: February 17 - 23 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 6: The Unity of Fragmentation
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, H. D.
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Unit
7: February 24 - March 2 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 7: Finding the Aesthetic
Assignments:
- Read and be ready to discuss Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore
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Unit
8: March 03 - March 09 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 8: The Outsiders
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Claude McKay, Edna St Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker
Expectations and study notes for Mid-term exam.
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Unit
9: March 10 - 16 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 9: More Romance
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Hart Crane, Yvor Winters, Langston Hughes
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10: March 16 - 22 (Spring
Break—No discussion required this week) |
Unit
11: March 24 - 30 (Tuesday - Monday)
Unit 11: Yearnings
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Theodore Roethke, Robert Penn Warren, Stanley Kunitz.
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Unit
12: March 31 - April 06(Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 12: It's All About the Word
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Louis Zukofsky, Louis MacNeice, George Oppen.
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Unit
13: April 07 - 13 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit
13: Exploring the Dilemma
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Charles Olson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser
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Unit
14: April 14 - 20 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 14: The Confessed
Assignments:
Read and be ready to discuss Robert Hayden, William Stafford, Robert Lowell
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Unit
15: April 21 - 27 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 15: We're Free Again
Assignments:
Read
and be ready to discuss Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Clampitt
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Unit
16: April 28 - May 04 (Tuesday-Monday)
Unit 16: Final Exam/Final Essay
Assignments:
- Exam review of poets and poetics
- Final Exam Thursday 04/30
- Final Journal (due Thursday, 05/07, midnight). Include my comments and grade from midtern journal. Email to: tonyraymorris@gmail.com, or turn in to class box outside of my office: Gamble 115 E
- Final
Essay (due Thursday, 05/07, midnight). Email to: tonyraymorris@gmail.com, or turn in to class box outside of my office: Gamble 115 E.
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