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Required Texts

[HV] = Vendler, Helen. Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002. ISBN: 9780312257064. [Preview a version of this work in Amazon.]

Recommended Texts

Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2005 (paperback). ISBN: 9780877796367.

Strunk, William, and E. B. White. Elements of Style. New York, NY: Penguin, 2007. ISBN: 9780143112723. [Preview this book in Amazon.]

Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. 6th ed. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. ISBN: 9780312593322.

Course readings.
WEEK #	READINGS
1	Yeats, W. B. To A Young Girl, When You Are Old, To Ireland In The Coming Times, The Song of Wandering Aengus, The Second Coming, Easter 1916, Never Give All The Heart. (PDF)
3	Poetry animations. "Yeats, W. B. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." Poem movie animation." April 18, 2008. YouTube. Accessed July 9, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfuG8ZaAzc
4	Stevens, Wallace. The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm.
5	Rich, Adrienne. "Mother-in-Law." [HV] Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Pied Beauty." [HV] Chapter 3. "Poems as Pleasures." [HV]
6	Donne, John. "Holy Sonnet 14." [HV] ———. "Holy Sonnet 10." [HV] Stevens, Wallace. The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm. (cont.) Hopkins, Gerard Manley. As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame. [Includes poem text and audio] Keats, John. "Letter on Negative Capability, 1818" (PDF) Chapter 6. "Constructing A Self." [HV] Whitman, Walt. Beginning My Studies. (PDF) ———. Song of Myself.
7	Coleman, Wanda. "Wanda Why Aren't You Dead." In Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems and Stories, 1968-1986. Boston, MA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780876857014.
8	Whitman, Walt. "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night." [HV] Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." [HV] Bishop, Elizabeth. "At the Fishhouses." [HV] ———. "One Art." [HV] ———. "In the Waiting Room." New York, NY: Library of America, 2008. ISBN: 9781598530179. [HV] ———. "Sestina." [HV]
9	Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." (cont.) [HV]
10	Eliot, T. S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent." In The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. Stonesfield, UK: Dodo Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781409961703.
12	Wallace Stevens journal note (PDF)