Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself. All poems are in Joel Connaroe's Six American Poets on page numbers indicated.
| Wednesday |
September 7 |
Introduction |
| Friday |
September 9 |
Robert Frost, "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" (212-213), "Two Tramps in Mud Time" (214-216) |
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| Monday |
September 12 |
Frost, "Mending Wall" (197-199), "The Wood-Pile" (206-207) |
| Wednesday |
September 14 |
Frost, "After Apple Picking" (205-206), "A Considerable Speck" (219-220) |
| Friday |
September 16 |
Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man" (199-204) |
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| Monday |
September 19 |
Frost, "Directive" (221-222), "Birches" (208-210) |
| Wednesday |
September 21 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved, pp. 1-51 |
| Friday |
September 23 |
Morrison, pp. 52-100 |
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| Monday |
September 26 |
Morrison, pp. 101-146 |
| Wednesday |
September 28 |
Morrison, pp. 147-195 |
| Friday |
September 30 |
Morrison, pp. 196-247 |
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| Monday |
October 3 |
Morrison, pp. 248-277 |
| Wednesday |
October 5 |
Morrison, pp. 278-end |
| Friday |
October 7 |
SECTION ONE EXAM |
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| Monday |
October 10 |
Walt Whitman, "Recorders Ages Since" (27-28), "I Sit and Look Out" (39-40), "The Dalliance of the Eagles" (40-41) |
| Wednesday |
October 12 |
Whitman, "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" (41-42), "Come up from the Fields, Father" (42-44)"A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown" (44-45) |
| Friday |
October 14 |
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (46-57) |
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| Monday |
October 17 |
Whitman, "To a Stranger" (29), "Sparkles from the Wheel" (62-63), "O Captain, My Captain!" (57-58) |
| Wednesday |
October 19 |
Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple, chs. 1-8 |
| Friday |
October 21 |
Rowson, chs. 9-18 |
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| Monday |
October 24 |
Rowson, chs. 19-25 |
| Wednesday |
October 26 |
Rowson, chs. 26-end |
| Friday |
October 28 |
Rowson, final thoughts |
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| Monday |
October 31 |
Langston Hughes, "Harlem" (257), "The Weary Blues" (233-234) |
| Wednesday |
November 2 |
Hughes, "Sylvester's Dying Bed" (234-235), "Early Evening Quarrel" (236) |
| Friday |
November 4 |
Hughes, "Lover's Return" (239), "Life is Fine" (241-242) |
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| Monday |
November 7 |
Hughes, "Ballad of the Girl Whose Name Is Mud" (243-244), "Ballad of the Man Who's Gone" (248-249), "Madam and Her Madam" (250-251) |
| Wednesday |
November 9 |
Hughes, "Madam and the Rent Man," "Madam and the Wrong Visitor," "Madam and the Census Man" (252-255) |
| Friday |
November 11 |
SECTION TWO EXAM |
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| Monday |
November 14 |
Herman Melville, "Billy Budd, Sailor," chs. 1-6 |
| Wednesday |
November 16 |
Melville, chs. 7-13 |
| Friday |
November 18 |
Melville, chs. 14-19 |
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| Monday |
November 21 |
Melville, chs. 20-24 |
| Wednesday |
November 23 |
Melville, chs. 25-end |
| Friday |
November 25 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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| Monday |
November 28 |
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, ch. 1 |
| Wednesday |
November 30 |
Pynchon, ch. 2 |
| Friday |
December 2 |
Pynchon, ch. 3 |
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| Monday |
December 5 |
Pynchon, ch. 4 |
| Wednesday |
December 7 |
Pynchon, ch. 5 |
| Friday |
December 9 |
Pynchon, ch. 6 |
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| Monday |
December 12 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 108, 288, 328, 465 |
| Wednesday |
December 14 |
Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (125-127), "A Postcard from the Volcano" (134) |
| Friday |
December 16 |
William Carlos Williams, "Complain" (161), "Proletarian Portrait" (168-169), "Exercise No. 2" (186) |
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