01:359:201 Lecture 1: 201fall2019
9 Mar 2020
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Required text, on order from the rutgers university bookstore: Gwendolyn brooks, selected poems (harper perennial modern classics edition), isbn 9780060882969. Amazon (or an equivalent independent seller) for around a small investment for a collection worth adding to your personal library. Please note: i encourage you to attend jericho brown"s reading (11/13 on the schedule below). You have the option of writing a brief response to this event for extra credit. 9/5 course introduction (emma lazarus, the new colossus ) 9/16 william cowper, epitaph on a hare, william blake, the tyger, alice oswald, fox . 9/19 mary wroth, love, a child, is ever crying, anne bradstreet, the author to her book . 9/23 felicia dorothea hemans, casabianca, elizabeth bishop, casabianca . 9/26 john donne, a valediction forbidding mourning, the flea . 10/3 first essay due; begin scansion in class (for better for verse) 10/7 sir philip sidney, astrophil and stella 1.
