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Major Poets

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Instructor: Prof. Alvin Kibel
Term: Fall 2001
Level: Undergraduate
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Major Poets

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Lecture 1: Introduction Discussion of: Plath, Sylvia. Metaphors . Discussion of: MacLeish, Archibald. Ars Poetica . Discussion of: Merwin, W. S. Asian Figures.

Lecture 2: Discussion of: Wyatt, Thomas. Who List to Hunt, They Flee From Me. Discussion of: Spenser, Edmund. Sonnets. 10, 15, 22, 67, 68, 75. Discussion of: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets.

Lecture 3: William Shakespeare (cont.)

Lecture 4: William Shakespeare (cont.)

Lecture 5: William Shakespeare (cont.) Discussion of John Donne Selections

Lecture 6: John Donne (cont.)

Lecture 9: Discussion of: Milton, John. Lycidas, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, How Soon Hath Time, On his Blindness, Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint.

Lecture 10: John Milton (cont.)

Lecture 11: John Milton (Discussion Concluded) Discussion of: Marvell, Andrew. The Coronet, Bermudas, Body and Soul.

Lecture 12: Discussion of: Marvell, Andrew. Coy Mistress, The Gallery, Definition of Love, The Mower Against Gardens, The Garden.

Lecture 13: Discussion of: Marvell, Andrew. On Appleton House.

Lecture 14: Discussion of: Wordsworth, William. Tintern Abbey. Discussion of: Taylor Coleridge, Samuel. Frost at Midnight.

Lecture 15: Discussion of: Wordsworth, William. She dwelt among untrodden ways, A Slumber did my Spirit Seal, Three Years she grew, The Solitary Reaper, selected sonnets, Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

Lecture 16: William Wordsworth (Discussion Concluded) Taylor Coleridge, Samuel. Khubla Khan.

Lecture 17: Discussion of: Keats, John. The Grasshopper and the Cricket, In Drear-Nighted December, What the Thrush Said, When I Have Fears, La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, to Autumn, Bright Star.

Lecture 18: John Keats (Discussion Concluded)

Lecture 20: William Butler Yeats (Discussion Concluded) Discussion of: Wilbur, Richard. Love Calls Us to Things of this World.

Lecture 22: Discussion of: Frost, Robert. The Oven Bird, Birches, Stopping by Woods, Acquainted with the Night, Neither Far Out nor In Deep, Design, The Silken Tent, Come In, Never Again Would Birdsong be the Same, The Most of It, Directive.

Lecture 23: Discussion of: Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land.

Lecture 24: Discussion of: Auden, W. H. As I Walked Out One Evening, Funeral Blues, Lullaby, Musée des Beaux Arts, In Memory of W. B. Yeats.

Lecture 25: Discussion of: Larkin, Philip. Church Going, An Arundel Tomb, Talking in Bed, Aubade, Essential Beauty, High Windows, The Whitsun Weddings.

Lecture 26: Review

Major Poets

Before you start

What's here, and what isn't

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Materials by section

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Study Materials

Lecture 1: Introduction Discussion of: Plath, Sylvia. Metaphors . Discussion of: MacLeish, Archibald. Ars Poetica . Discussion of: Merwin, W. S. Asian Figures.

Lecture 2: Discussion of: Wyatt, Thomas. Who List to Hunt, They Flee From Me. Discussion of: Spenser, Edmund*. Sonnets. 10, 15, 22, 67, 68, 75*. Discussion of: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets.

Lecture 3: William Shakespeare (cont.)

Lecture 4: William Shakespeare (cont.)

Lecture 5: William Shakespeare (cont.) Discussion of John Donne Selections

Lecture 6: John Donne (cont.)

Lecture 9: Discussion of: Milton, John. Lycidas, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, How Soon Hath Time, On his Blindness, Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint.

Lecture 10: John Milton (cont.)

Lecture 11: John Milton (Discussion Concluded) Discussion of: Marvell, Andrew. The Coronet, Bermudas, Body and Soul.

Lecture 12: Discussion of: Marvell, Andrew. Coy Mistress, The Gallery, Definition of Love, The Mower Against Gardens, The Garden.

Lecture 13: Discussion of: Marvell, Andrew. On Appleton House.

Lecture 14: Discussion of: Wordsworth, William. Tintern Abbey. Discussion of: Taylor Coleridge, Samuel. Frost at Midnight.

Lecture 15: Discussion of: Wordsworth, William. She dwelt among untrodden ways, A Slumber did my Spirit Seal, Three Years she grew, The Solitary Reaper, selected sonnets, Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

Lecture 16: William Wordsworth (Discussion Concluded) Taylor Coleridge, Samuel. Khubla Khan.

Lecture 17: Discussion of: Keats, John. The Grasshopper and the Cricket, In Drear-Nighted December, What the Thrush Said, When I Have Fears, La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, to Autumn, Bright Star.

Lecture 18: John Keats (Discussion Concluded)

Lecture 20: William Butler Yeats (Discussion Concluded) Discussion of: Wilbur, Richard. Love Calls Us to Things of this World.

Lecture 22: Discussion of: Frost, Robert. The Oven Bird, Birches, Stopping by Woods, Acquainted with the Night, Neither Far Out nor In Deep, Design, The Silken Tent, Come In, Never Again Would Birdsong be the Same, The Most of It, Directive.

Lecture 23: Discussion of: Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land.

Lecture 24: Discussion of: Auden, W. H. As I Walked Out One Evening, Funeral Blues, Lullaby, Musée des Beaux Arts, In Memory of W. B. Yeats.

Lecture 25: Discussion of: Larkin, Philip. Church Going, An Arundel Tomb, Talking in Bed, Aubade, Essential Beauty, High Windows, The Whitsun Weddings.

Lecture 26: Review

Lecture 2: Discussion of: Wyatt, Thomas. Who List to Hunt, They Flee From Me. Discussion of: Spenser, Edmund. Sonnets. 10, 15, 22, 67, 68, 75. Discussion of: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets.