Basic Program 2nd Year Tutorial
Thursday AM, Spring 2015
April 2 – June 4
Instructor: Zoë Eisenman
Email: [email protected]
Required Texts:
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, shorter 5th edition, Norton ISBN 978-0393979213
Schedule of Readings:
Week 1, 4/2: Intro, Poe, The Raven [615], Shelley, Ozymandias [541]
Week 2, 4/9: Poetry
Versification [1251-1276]
Carroll, Jabberwocky (& Humpty Dumpty’s Explication) [736]
Drayton, To the Reader of these Sonnets [166]
Jonson, A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme [215]
Wordsworth, Scorn Not the Sonnet [486]
Keats, On the Sonnet [579]
Dickinson, 1263 (1129) [731]
Williams, This Is Just to Say [830]
Williams, Poem [830]
Moore, Poetry [856]
MacLeish, Ars Poetica [885]
Layton, The Birth of Tragedy [967]
O’Hara, Why I Am Not a Painter [1076]
Kinnell, The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students [1084]
Bernstein, this poem intentionally left blank [1219]
Seamus Heaney, Digging [1179]
Week 3, 4/16: Classics
Poetic Syntax [1277-1297]
Jonson, To John Donne [209]
Jonson, To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare [217]
Jonson, A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth [219]
Milton, On Shakespeare [260]
Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer [567]
Keats, On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again [568]
Keats, To Homer [569]
Tennyson, Ulysses [629]
Arnold, Shakespeare [704]
Pound, A Pact [845]
Millay, Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare [887]
Crane, To Emily Dickinson [908]
Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats [939]
Auden, The Shield of Achilles [946]
Harrison, A Kumquat for John Keats [1168]
Week 4, 4/23: Life/Death
Frost, The Road Not Taken [801]
Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers [913]
Brooks, Kitchenette Building [998]
John Clare, I Am [566]
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid [747]
Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night [991]
Landor, Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher [509]
Dickinson, 591 (465) [727]
Eliot, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock [862]
Housman, A Shropshire Lad: 19. To An Athlete Dying Young [760]
Amy Lowell, Patterns [810]
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus [1148]
Whitman, From Song of Myself [679]
Week 5, 4/30: Love/Sex
Donne, The Flea [202]
Elizabeth I, When I Was Fair and Young [111]
Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [168]
Raleigh, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd [121]
Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband [285]
Bradstreet, A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment [286]
Marvell, To His Coy Mistress [293]
Wilmot, A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover [326]
Goldsmith, When Lovely Women Stoop to Folly [421]
Burns, A Red Red Rose [456]
Byron, So We’ll Go No More A-Roving [512]
E. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (43) [594]
Yeats, Adam’s Curse [769]
Yeats, No Second Troy [770]
Millay, [I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed] [887]
Cummings, may i feel said he [895]
Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps [1085]
Week 6, 5/7: War
Donne, Holy Sonnet 10 [207]
Dickinson, 479 (712) [726]
Rossetti, Song [733]
Rossetti, Remember [733]
Kipling, Tommy [765]
Kipling, Recessional [766]
Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est [890]
Housman, Hear Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose [765]
Housman, Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries [764]
MacDiarmid, Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries [884]
Lewis, Two Songs [926]
Lewis, Where are the War Poets? [927]
Hope, Inscription for a War [949]
Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner [981]
Week 7, 5/14: Nature
Frost, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening [803]
Blake, The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience [446]
Marvell, The Garden [296]
Marvell, The Mower Against Gardens [295]
Melville, The Maldive Shark [674]
Stevens, Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird [820]
Burns, To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough [452]
Dryden, A Song For St. Cecilia's Day [310]
Emerson, The Snow-storm [589]
Hardy, The Darkling Thrush [746]
Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus [613]
Ammons, Corsons Inlet [1054]
Wordsworth, The Tables Turned [457]
Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree [768]
Week 8, 5/21: Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Shakespeare, Sonnets [169]
Week 9, 5/28: Rubiat of Omar Khayyam
Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur [600]
Week 10, 6/4: Student’s Choice