Modern British and American Poetry

Syllabus, Fall 2002

August 27th Tuesday Introduction: twentieth-century poetry; "modernism"

August 29th Thursday Oscar Wilde

September 3rd W. B. Yeats

September 5th Edith Sitwell, music; first journal due

September 10th war poets: Wilfred Owen

September 12th war poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg

September 17th T. S. Eliot, "Wasteland"

September 19th Eliot and Frost

September 24th Robert Frost

September 26th Edgar Lee Masters

October 1st Hilda Doolittle

October 3rd Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay

October 8th Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes

October 10th Langston Hughes

October 15th H. D.

October 17th Marianne Moore

October 22nd Wallace Stevens

October 24th W. H. Auden;

October 29th Dylan Thomas; first 6-page paper due

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October 31st Ruth Pitter, Stevie Smith

November 5th Grace Nichols; Jean Binta-Breeze

November 7th Evan Boland; Liz Lochhead

November 12th Hugh MacDiarmid

November 14th Jacquie Kay

November 19th Seamus Heaney

November 21st Elizabeth Bishop

November 26th Gary Snyder

Nobember 28th Thanksgiving

December 3rd Denise Levertov; Sylvia Plath

December 5th Gwendolyn Brooks

December 10th Simon Ortiz; Leslie Marmon Silko

December 12th Cathy Song

December 17th final class meeting; take-home final essay due

December 20th all 8 journal assignments due