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Contemporary Poetry

 

Summer reading list:

 

Shakespeare's Sonnets

George Herbert
                        - The Altar
                        - The Collar
                        - Easter Wings
                        - Love (III)

John Donne
                        - The Relic
                        - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
                        - Death be not Proud
                        - Batter My Heart

John Milton's Lycidas

William Blake
                        - Marriage of Heaven and Hell
                        - Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Wordsworth
                        - The Prelude Books 1 &2

                        - The Prelude Book 6      
                        - Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
                        - Ode: Intimations on Immortality
                        - Tintern Abbey

Samuel Coleridge
                        - Dejection: an Ode
                        - This Limetree Bower my Prison
                        - First 2 chapters of Biographia Literaria

John Keats all the Odes
                        - Samples of letters
                        - Benjamin Bailey Nov. 22 1817
                        - Especially to John Taylor Feb. 27 1818:
                        - Oct 27 1918 Richard Woodhouse
                        - Fanny Braun July 15 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley
                        - Adonais
                        - A Defense of Poetry

                        - Ozymandias

French symbolist movement         

Charles Baudelaire
                        - Les Fleurs du Mal
                        - Paris Spleen

Arthur Rimbaud
                        - Illuminations
                        - The Drunken boat

Stephane Mallarme

Hopkins Sonnets
                        - http://www.bartleby.com/122/index1.html

Matthew Arnold
                        -Dover Beach

Walt Whitman
                        -preface to Leaves of Grass

                        -Leaves of Grass

Emily Dickinson
                        -Complete Poems

Friederich Schiller

                        - The Walk

 

Twentieth century:      

Robert Creeley

                       - The Rain

W. C. Williams

                        - Last Words of my English Grandmother

Elizabeth Bishop

                        - In the waiting room

Gertrude Stein
                        - Tender Buttons
                        - Susie Asado

 

Wallace Stevens     
                        - Idea of Order
                        - Sunday Morning
                        - Sea Surface full of Clouds
                        - 13 ways of looking at a blackbird

Ezra Pound
                        - First Canto
                        - Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

h.d.
                        - the walls do not fall (1944)

Marianne Moore
                        - An Octopus

TS Eliot
                        - The Preludes
                        - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
                        - The Waste Land
                        - Four Quartets

George Oppen
                        - http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/oppen/
                        - Who Shall Doubt

Lorine Niedecker
                        http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/niedecker/

Duncan
                        - My Mother Would be a Falconress
                        - Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

Abstract Expressionism