poet

DoctoralReadingList

Poetry

Thestudentwillbeexpectedtodiscussgenre(forexample:elegy,ode),poeticmodes

(pastoral,Petrarchanlovepoetry,satire,arspoetica,poetryofplace),andforms(the

sonnet,thevillanelle,etc.),inadditiontocriticalconceptsanderas(visionarypoetry,

Romanticism,Modernism).

Psalms19,22,23,29,95,137(KingJamesversion)

Dante--lectionsfromLavitanuova

Petrarch--lectionsfromRimespar

OldEnglishPoetry:TheWayfarer,TheWanderer,Deor

Chaucer--GeneralProloguetoTheCanterburyTales

ThomasWyatt--BlameNotMyLute;MyLuteAwake;Whosolisttohunt;Theyflee

fromme;Thelonglovethatinmythoughtdothharbor

Surrey—Lovethatdothreignandlivewithinmythought

Spenr—Prothalamion,TheFaerieQueeneBk.I,BowerofBliss(fromFQII),Garden

ofAdonis(FQIII)

Sidney—YeGoatherdGods,lectionsfromAstrophelandStella

Shakespeare—lectionsfromtheSonnets;ThePhoenixandtheTurtle

Marlowe—ThePassionateShepherdtohisLove

Jonson—ToPenshurst,OnmyFirstSon,Cary-MorisonOde,Song:ToCelia,To

FineLadyWould-Be

Milton—NativityOde,L’Allegro,IlPenroso,Lycidas,ParadiLost(Bks.I,II,

IV,VIII,IX),“Howsoonhathtime”(Sonnet7),“WhenIconsiderhowmylight

isspent”(Sonnet21),“MethoughtIsawmylateespoudsaint”(Sonnet23)

Marvell—TheMower’sSong;UponAppletonHou;TheGarden;ToHisCoy

Mistress;TheNymphComplainingfortheDeathofherFawn;ADialogue

BetweentheSoulandBody

Herbert--ChurchMusic,Prayer,Love(III),ChurchMonuments,TheFlower,ThePulley,

Death,TheCollar,Redemption,TheAltar

Vaughan—Night,TheWorld,TheRetreat

Donne--HolySonnets,TheFlea,AValedictionForbiddingMourning,TheCanonization,

TheSunRising,theGoodMorrow,AValedictionofWeeping,Elegy19(ToHis

MistressGoingtoBed),SatireIII(Religion),TheBait

Herrick—TheArgumentofhisBook;Corinna’sGoingaMaying;ToLiveMerrily,and

toTrusttoGoodVers;TheVine;DowninDevon;UponJulia’sClothes

JohnDryden--MacFlecknoe,

ChristopherSmart--“ForIwillconsidermycatGeoffrey”fromJubilateAgno

AnneBradstreet--ThePrologue;TheAuthortoherBook;ALettertoHerHusband,

AbntuponPublickEmployment;AsWearyPilgrim;Contemplations;In

memoryofmydeargrand-childElizabethBradstreet

EdwardTaylor--Meditations1.8,1.29,1.32,1.39,2.4,2.56,2.150;PrefacetoGod’s

Determinations;UponaSpiderCatchingaFly;Huswifery;UponWedlock,and

DeathofChildren

Swift—DescriptionoftheMorning

Pope—WindsorForest,TheRapeoftheLock,TheDunciad()

Collins—OdeonthePoeticalCharacter;OdetoFear

AnneFinch—ANocturnalReverie

Gray—ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard

Cowper—TheCastaway

Blake--fromSongsofInnocence:Introduction,“TheEcchoingGreen,”“TheChimney

Sweeper,”and“TheLamb”;fromSongsofExperience,Introduction,“Earth’s

Answer,”“TheGardenofLove,”“TheTyger,”and“London”;NighttheNinth

(fromTheFourZoas)

Wordsworth,“TinternAbbey”;“Nutting”;fromThePrelude(1850version):BookOne,

lines1-30,301-424;BookTwo,lines233-265;BookFour,lines256-275;Book

Five,lines1-165;BookSix,lines592-616;BookFourteen,lines1-129;

ProspectustoTheExcursion,lines1-71;CompodUponWestminsterBridge;

London,1802;TheSolitaryReaper;ImmortalityOde,Resolutionand

Independence,ElegiacStanzas

Coleridge--TheAeolianHarp,ThisLime-TreeBower,MyPrison;FrostatMidnight;

Dejection:AnOde,TheRimeoftheAncientMariner;Christabel;KublaKhan

Byron--ChildeHarold’sPilgrimage,CantoIII;Darkness;SonnetonChillon

Shelley--MontBlanc,OdetotheWestWind,Alastor,HymntoIntellectualBeauty,

Ozymandias,“LiftNotthePaintedVeil,”TheTriumphofLife

WilliamCullenBryant--Thanatopsis,ThePrairies,Sonnet—ToanAmericanPainter

DepartingforEurope

Keats--OdetoPsyche,OdetoaNightingale,OdeonaGrecianUrn,OdeonMelancholy,

ToAutumn,LaBelleDameSansMerci,TheFallofHyperion,TheEveofSt.

Agnes,ThisLivingHand

Emerson—Uriel;Bacchus;TheSnow-storm;TheRhodora

ElizabethBarrettBrowning--TheCryoftheChildren;lectionsfromSonnetsfromthe

Portugue

EdgarAllanPoe--ToScience,ToHelen,Romance,Ulalume—ABallad

Tennyson—TheKraken;Mariana;InMemoriam;Ulyss;TheLadyofShalott;Tithonus

EdwardFitzgerald—lectionsfromTheRubaiyatofOmarKhayyam

Longfellow—Belisarius,TheJewishCemeteryatNewport

RobertBrowning—ChildeRolandtotheDarkTowerCame,MyLastDuchess,Andrea

delSarto,Porphyria’sLover,FraLippoLippi,AToccataofGaluppi’s,Love

AmongtheRuins

Melville--ThePortent,Art,Shiloh

WaltWhitman--SongofMylf,StartingfromPaumanok,CrossingBrooklynFerry,AsI

Ebb’dwiththeOceanofLife,WhenIHeardtheLearn’dAstronomer,A

NoilessPatientSpider,ISawinLouisianaaLive-OakGrowing,TheSleepers,

AClearMidnight,OutoftheCradleEndlesslyRocking,ThereWasaChildWent

Forth,AsAdamEarlyintheMorning,FromPent-UpAchingRivers,When

LilacsLastintheDooryardBloomed

MatthewArnold—DoverBeach,TheScholarGypsy,Thyrsis

GeorgeMeredith--lectionsfromModernLove

DanteGabrielRostti--lectionsfromTheHouofLife;TheBlesdDamozel

EmilyDickinson--IlikealookofAgony,WildNights—WildNights!,IfeltaFuneral,in

myBrain,TheSoullectsherownSociety—,MuchMadnessisdivinest

Sen—,ThisismylettertotheWorld,ThiswasaPoet—ItisThat,Idiedfor

Beauty—butwasscarce,Ireckon—whenIcountatall—,Theyshutmeupin

Pro,IcannotlivewithYou—,IdwellinPossibility,BecauIcouldnotstop

forDeath—,TellalltheTruthbuttellitslant,“Faith”isafineinvention,“Safein

theirAlabasterChambers—,Titledivine—ismine!,“HeavenlyFather”—taketo

thee,AWordmadeFleshisldom

ChristinaRostti--MonnaInnominata,Paradi,ABetterResurrection,ABirthday,Up

Hill,AtHome,GoblinMarket,Song,Remember

WilliamMorris—TheHaystackintheFloods;TheDefenofGuinevere

CharlesAlgernonSwinburne--AForsakenGarden,TheGardenofProrpine,The

TriumphofTime,AveAtqueVale

GerardManleyHopkins--God’sGrandeur,TheWindhover,PiedBeauty,ThatNatureisa

HeracliteanFire,AsKingfishersCatchFire,Iwakeandfeelthefellofdark,not

day,No,worthereisnone

ThomasHardy--TheDarklingThrush,TheVoice,DuringWindandRain,TheRuined

Maid,ILookintoMyGlass,NeutralTones,TheSelf-Uneing,ChannelFiring,

InTimeofTheBreakingofNations,ANewYear’sEveinWarTime

n—SelectionsfromAShropshireLad

—TheSongofWanderingAengus,TheCapandBells,TheLakeIsle

ofInnisfree,September1913,Easter1916,TheWildSwansatCoole,The

FascinationofWhat’sDifficult,Adam’sCur,NineteenHundredandNineteen,

AmongSchoolChildren,LedaandtheSwan,Meru,TheCircusAnimals’

Dertion,CuchulainComforted

RobertFrost—Mowing,MendingWall,HomeBurial,AfterApple-Picking,TheWood-

Pile,TheOvenBird,Birches,Out,out—,AStarinaStone-Boat,TheNeedof

BeingVerdinCountryThings,OncebythePacific,TwoTrampsinMudTime,

ADrumlinWoodchuck,DertPlaces,TheStrongareSayingNothing,Neither

OutFarNorInDeep,Design,TheMostofIt,NeverAgainWouldBirds’SongBe

theSame,TheSubvertedFlower,Directive

GertrudeStein—lectionsfromTenderButtons

WallaceStevens—NomadExquisite,SundayMorning,TeaatthePalazofHoon,The

SnowMan,TheEmperorofIceCream,PoemsofOurClimate,

Uruguay,TheAurorasofAutumn,NotesTowardaSupremeFiction,Final

SoliloquyoftheInteriorParamour

MinaLoy—Parturition,SongsforJoannes,SketchofaManonaPlatform,VirginsPlus

CurtainsMinusDots,MassProductionon14thStreet,ApologyofGenius,Der

BlindeJunge,ChiffonVelours,HotCrossBum

ms—DanRus;TheRedWheelbarrow;BetweenWalls;ThisisJustto

Say;SpringandAll(“Bytheroadtothecontagioushospital”);Picturesfrom

Brueghel;Asphodel,ThatGreenyFlower

EzraPound—HughSelwynMauberly;CantosI,IIandIII;InaStationofthe

Metro;TheReturn;firstPisanCanto

ce—SongofaManWhoHasComeThrough;BabyTortoi;

TortoiShout;;w;;;Snake

MarianneMoore--Marriage,Poetry,AGrave,Silence,InDistrustofMerits,TheFish,

England,TheSteepleJack,NewYork,VirginiaBritannia,TheArcticOx,Combat

Cultural

--Preludes,Prufrock,Gerontion,AshWednesday,The

WasteLand,LittleGidding(fromFourQuartets)

WilfredOwen—AnthemforDoomedYouth

gs--r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r;Among/the/redpiecesof/day;stinging/

goldswarms/uponthespires;Osweetspontaneous/earth

LouiBogan—Women,RomanFountain

HartCrane--RepoofRivers,AtMelville’sTomb,Voyages,TheBridge(entirebook)

YvorWinters—OnTeachingtheYoung;SirGawaineandtheGreenKnight

AllenTate—OdetotheConfederateDead

BasilBunting—lectionsfromBriggflatts

SterlingBrown—MemphisBlues,SliminAtlanta

LangstonHughes—TheNegroSpeaksofRivers,DreamVariations,ThemeforEnglishB

CounteeCullen—Incident,Heritage

LouisZukofsky—A(Section12)

RobertPennWarren—EveningHawk

--Fromtheveryfirstcomingdown,Thislunarbeauty,Layyoursleeping

head,Doomisdarkanddeeperthananya-dingle,Nowfrommywindow-sillI

watchthenight,Look,stranger,atthisislandnow;MuséedesBeauxArts;In

;September1,1939

TheodoreRoethke—MyPapa’sWaltz,ElegyforJane

ElizabethBishop--TheMap,TheMan-Moth,SleepingontheCeiling,Roosters,Over

2,000IllustrationsandaCompleteConcordance,TheBight,AttheFishhous,

GeographyIII(entirebook)

RobertHayden—ThoWinterSundays,TheBalladofNatTurner

MaySwenson—Question,Big-HippedNature

JohnBerryman—lectionsfromTheDreamSongs

RandallJarrell—TheWomanattheWashingtonZoo;Night,DeathandtheDevil;The

DeathoftheBallTurretGunner

GwendolynBrooks—lectionsfromAStreetinBronzeville

RobertLowell--LifeStudies(entirebook);FortheUnionDead

RichardWilbur—ABaroqueWall-FountainintheVillaSciarra;LoveCallsUstothe

ThingsofthisWorld;Mind;AdvicetoaProphet

PhilipLarkin—ChurchGoing,HighWindows,ThisBetheVer

AnthonyHecht—AHill;TheDeodand

—SoISaidIamEzra,HeHeldRadicalLight,GravellyRun,Corsons

Inlet,TheCityLimits,TheArcInsideandOut

AllenGinsberg—Howl,ASupermarketinCalifornia,SunflowerSutra,America

JamesMerrill—TheBrokenHome,Self-PortraitinTywek™Windbreaker,A

DownwardLook

JohnHollander--Kinneret

FrankO’Hara—TotheHarbormaster,AStepAwayfromThem,TheDayLadyDied

JohnAshbery—TheInstructionManual,SoonestMended,Self-PortraitinaConvex

Mirror

—TheLice(entirebook)

JamesWright—AttheExecutedMurderer’sGrave;AutumnBeginsinMartinsFerry,

Ohio;LyinginaHammockatWilliamDuffy’sFarminPineIsland,Minnesota

AnneSexton—HerKind;WithMercyfortheGreedy

AdrienneRich—SnapshotsofaDaughter-in-Law;DivingintotheWreck

SylviaPlath—TheColossus,TheMoonandtheYew-Tree,Tulips,Daddy,LadyLazarus,

Edge

EssaysonPoetry

Sidney,AnApologyforPoetry

Pope,AnEssayonCriticism

Johnson,fromTheLifeofCowley(onmetaphysicalpoetry)

Wordsworth,PrefacetotheSecondEditionofLyricalBallads

Coleridge,fromShakespeareanCriticism,“MechanicandOrganicForm”;from

BiographiaLiteraria,ChapterXIII:TheImagination;OnPoesyorArt,fromThe

Statesman’sManual(ry)

Shelley,ADefenofPoetry

Keats,SelectedLetters

Emerson,ThePoet

Yeats,TheSymbolismofPoetry

Frost,TheFigureaPoemMakes

Stevens,ImaginationasValue

HartCrane,GeneralAimsandTheories

,TraditionandtheIndividualTalent,TheMetaphysicalPoets

EzraPound,HowtoRead

RobertPennWarren,PureandImpurePoetry

HaroldBloom,TheInternalizationofQuestRomance

GeoffreyHartman,RomanticismandAnti-Self-Consciousness

HelenVendler,TheFunctionofCriticism

MarjoriePerloff,ThePoeticsofIndeterminacy(firstchapter)

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