The table below provides information on the weekly topics for the course. Descriptions of the class reports, response and factoid papers are in the assignments section.
Course calendar.
| WEEK # |
Topics |
Key Dates |
| 1 |
Introductions |
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| 2 |
Akhmatova Poems; Discussion and Biography
Film: Aranovich, Semyon. The Anna Achmatova File. 1989. |
Class report A due
Response A due
Factoid A due |
| 3 |
Walt Whitman; T. S. Eliot; William Carlos Williams; Ezra Pound; Hilda Doolittle |
Class report B due
Response B due
Factoid B due |
| 4 |
Wilfred Owen; W. B. Yeats; Siegfried Sassoon; W. H. Auden; Randall Jarrell |
Class report C due
Response C due
Factoid C due |
| 5 |
Robert Lowell, Life Studies |
Class report D due
Response D due
Factoid D due |
| 6 |
Robert Lowell, Life Studies (cont.) |
Class report E due
Response E due
Factoid E due |
| 7 |
Sylvia Plath, Ariel |
Class report F due
Response F due
Factoid F due |
| 8 |
Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Macchu Picchu |
Class report G due
Response G due
Factoid G due |
| 9 |
Hilda Doolittle, Trilogy |
Class report H due
Response H due
Factoid H due |
| 10 |
Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III |
Class report I due
Response I due
Factoid I due |
| 11 |
Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems Poems: First Third (Poems in Poland in Early Exile in France) |
Class report J due
Response J due
Factoid J due |
| 12 |
Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems Poems : Second Third (Poems in Exile in France and Early in America) |
Class report K due
Response K due
Factoid K due |
| 13 |
Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: Final Third (Poems in America/Old Age) |
Class report L due
Response L due
Factoid L due |