Week 12______________________
Tuesday, March 27
Reading (make sure you read all relevant author headnotes).
- “American Literature, 1914-1945: 1482-1504
- Sub-section Introduction, “Modernisms in American Poetry”: 1511-1519
- American Contexts: Make It New”: Theories of Modern Poetry:
- Ezra Pound: 1523-1526
- Amy Lowell: Prose from 1527-1530
- Poetry:
- Ezra Pound “A Pact” (1600-1601); “In a Station of the Metro” (1602)
- H.D. “Oread” (1607), “Garden” (1608), and “Sea Rose” (1609)
- William Carlos Williams: Headnote (1586-1588), “To Elsie” (1594-1595), “The Red Wheelbarrow” (1596)
Thursday, March 29
Reading
- Robert Frost: Headnote (1556-1558), “Mending Wall” (1558-1559)
- Mina Loy: Headnote (1582-1583), “Love Songs” (1584-1586)
- T.S. Eliot: Headnote (1623-25), “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1626-1630)
- Wallace Stevens: Headnote (1570-71), “Anecdote of the Jar” (1578-9), “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (1576-1578)
Week 13_________________________
Tuesday, April 3
Reading
- American Contexts: “Make It New”: Theories of Modern Poetry:
- Langston Hughes: “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1536-1540)
- Poetry:
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar, headnote (1376-1377) and “We Wear the Mask” (1381)
- Langston Hughes, headnote (1690-1692), “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1693-2694), and “I, Too” (1695)
- Claude McKay, headnote (1658-1660), “The Lynching” (1661-1662), and “America” (1662)
Thursday, April 5–At Home and Abroad: American Fiction between the Wars
Reading
- Sub-section Introduction, “At Home and Abroad”: 1753-1760
- William Faulkner, headnote (1840-1841) and “Barn Burning” 1855-1868
- Earnest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River: 1871-1886