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CLASS #TOPICS
1Introductions and such as that.
2Lowell
Read the poems from Life Studies and History
3A video encounter with Lowell
4Lowell
The poems from For Lizzie and Harriett and The Dolphin
5Levertov. Poems 1968-72. Some specific advice will be forthcoming, but fare boldly forth on your own.
6Levertov reads on video
7Levertov. This Great Becoming
8Rich. We'll focus on her earlier poems
9Rich on video
10Rich, the later poems. Specific advice to follow
11Heaney
Read the poems from Death of a Naturalist and Field Work
12Heaney on video
13Heaney. Poems from Station Island and Seeing Things
14Pinsky
Pay close attention to An Explanation of America
15I hope Pinsky will visit our class today.
16Pinsky. Sadness and Happiness
17Collins. Follow your eys, and ears, and heart.
18First Essay due
[Also, this very night Seamus Heaney will be reading at MIT. Go, by all means. Get there early -- he always draws a big, big crowd.]
19I hope to have MIT's own Erica Funkhouser visit with us, not so much to talk about Collins as to discuss the nature of her own work, which is not readily available in affordable editions, alas.
20Collins
21Monahan
22Jean Monahan will join us.
23Monahan
24

Hodgen
I will expect at least a full account of your costume. Better yet, wear it so we can all applaud.

25John Hodgen will visit us.
26Hodgen
27Schwartz
28A visit from Lloyd Scwartz.
29Second Essay due
30Schwartz
31Rita Dove. Specific poems tba
32Dove on video
33Dove
34Tapscott
35Tapscott will meet with us.
36Tapscott
37-39We'll meander. I'll advise you about some decent poetry websites, you can look back at some poems we slighted on our syllabus, or find poems in the Astley anthology. Come each session ready to read aloud a poem that strikes you, for whatever reason, and to define why that poem "matters" in your judgment.
40-41Final presentations
 


 



 








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