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Readings marked "AP" can be found in American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 1, ed. Robert Hass et al. (Library of America).
| 11 January | Ezra Pound,
“In a Station of the Metro” (AP 514), “Lament of the Frontier
Guard” (AP 521-2), Canto II (AP 546-50), Canto IV (AP 550-3), Canto
LXXXI (AP 568-72), Canto CXVI (AP 576-8), “A
Retrospect” Amy Lowell, “The Pike” (AP 163) |
| 18 January | T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (AP 744-60), “Burnt Norton” (AP 783-8), “Tradition and the Individual Talent” |
| 25 January | Marianne Moore, “To a Steam Roller” (AP 679), “Critics and Connoisseurs” (AP 681-2), “The Fish” (AP 686-7), “Poetry” (AP 692-3), “Marriage” (AP 695-702), “Bowls” (AP 704), “Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle” (AP 707-10) |
| 1 February | H.D.,
“Oread” (AP 595), “Sea Rose” (AP 595), “Evening”
(AP 596-7), “Fragment 113” (AP 602-3), from The Walls Do Not
Fall (AP 619-28), Tribute to the Angels XXIX (AP 631-2) Mina Loy, Songs to Joannes (AP 391-404) |
| 8 February | Gertrude Stein, from Tender Buttons (AP 177-191), “Susie Asado” (AP 191), from “Lifting Belly” (AP 191-210) |
| 15 February | From Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro: Alain Locke, “The New Negro” (3-16); Albert C. Barnes, “Negro Art and America” (19-25); William Stanley Braithwaite, “The Negro in American Literature” (29-44) Jean Toomer, “Carma” and “Fern” (96-104); Langston Hughes, poems (141-5); Angelina Grimke, “The Black Finger” (148); Claude McKay, “Negro Dancers” (214-5) |
| 22 February | Reading Week: no class |
| 1 March | **Term
paper due** Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| 8 March | William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! |
| 15 March | William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! |
| 22 March | Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man |
| 29 March | Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man |
| 5 April | Allen Ginsberg, Howl: Original Draft Facsimile |
| 12 April | **Term
Test** Time and place: 6-9 p.m., Haultain Building, Room 403 |