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.
| WEEK # | Topics | Key Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introductions | |
| 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 |
