Date
4/5
4/6
 The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the syllabus and the assignment calendar during the course of the semester.
 It is the student’s responsibility to stay informed about these changes.
Reading Homework
Read: “American Literature 1914-1945” p. 1177-1190
Read: Edgar Lee Masters p. 1206-1209
In-Class Work/ Assignment Due Dates
Modernism and American Literature
Revenge against Small town life.
4/7
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869–1935) 1209
"an American dream gone awry.”
Luke Havergal 1210
4/8
4/12
4/13
4/14
4/15
4/19
4/20
Richard Cory 1211
Miniver Cheevy 1211
Mr. Flood’s Party 1212
AMY LOWELL (1874–1925) 1349
The Captured Goddess 1350
Venus Transiens 1352
Madonna of the Evening Flowers 1352
September, 1918 1353
Meeting-House Hill 1354
Summer Night Piece 1354
St. Louis 1355
New Heavens for Old 1355
WORLD WAR I AND ITS AFTERMATH 1371
ALAN SEEGER: I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . . 1373
JOHN REED: One Solid Month of Liberty 1374
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: Letter of August 18, 1918, to His Parents 1377
E. E. CUMMINGS: From The Enormous Room 1379
JESSIE REDMON FAUSET: From There Is Confusion 1382
JOHN ALLAN WYETH, Jr.: Fromereville 1384
GERTRUDE STEIN: From The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 1385
ROBERT FROST (1874–1963) 1388
The Pasture 1389
Mowing 1389
Mending Wall 1390
Fire and Ice 1403
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1403
Home Burial 1395
After Apple-Picking 1398
The Wood-Pile 1399
The Road Not Taken 1399
CARL SANDBURG (1878–1967) 1436
Chicago 1437
Fog 1438
Cool Tombs 1438
Grass 1439
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883–1963) 1462
The Young Housewife 1464
Portrait of a Lady 1464
Queen-Anne’s-Lace 1465
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime 1466
The Red Wheelbarrow 1469
The Dead Baby 1469
Death 1471
This is Just to Say 1472
SUSAN GLASPELL (1876–1948) 1411
Trifles 1412
WALLACE STEVENS (1879–1955) 1439
The Snow Man 1441
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1441
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1442
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock 1443
Sunday Morning 1443
The Death of a Soldier 1450
EZRA POUND (1885–1972) 1477
To Whistler, American 1479
Portrait d’une Femme 1479
A Virginal 1480
Imagist school
WWI and the American Author
Vernacular vs. Modernism
Feminist Drama
Literature Response 1 Due
Avant-garde poetry
Objectivist Poets

5/3
5/4
5/5
5/10
5/11
5/12
5/13
4/21
4/22
4/26
4/27
4/28
4/29
5/6
A Pact 1481
H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886–1961) 1514
Mid-day 1515
Oread 1516
Leda 1516
Fragment 113 1517
MODERNIST MANIFESTOS 1499
F. T. MARINETTI: From Manifesto of Futurism 1500
MINA LOY: Feminist Manifesto 1502
EZRA POUND: From A Retrospect 1505
WILLA CATHER: From
The Novel Démeublé 1508
WILLIAM CARLOS: Williams: From Spring and All 1510
LANGSTON HUGHES: From The Negro Artist and the Racial
Mountain 1511
T. S. ELIOT (1888–1965) 1574
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1577
T. S. ELIOT
The Waste Land 1587
The Hollow Men 1599
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896–1940) 1822
Winter Dreams 1823
CLAUDE McKAY (1889–1948) 1686
The Harlem Dancer 1687
Harlem Shadows 1687
The Lynching 1688
If We Must Die 1688
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902–1967) 2026
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 2027
I, Too 2028
The Weary Blues 202
Theme for English B
COUNTEE CULLEN
Yet Do I Marvell
Incident
Uncle Jim
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960)
How It Feels to Be Colored Me 1710
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897–1962) 1858
Barn Burning 1955
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892–1950) 1803
Recuerdo 1804
I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently 1805
[I, being born a woman] 1805
Apostrophe to Man 1805
I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex 1806
The Snow Storm 1806
I Forgot for a Moment 1807
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894–1962) 1807
Thy fingers make early flowers of 1808 in Just- 1809
O sweet spontaneous 1809
Buffalo Bill ’s 1810 the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls 1811
“next to of course god america i 1811 somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond 1813 anyone lived in a pretty how town 1813 pity this busy monster,manunkind 1816
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899–1961) 1980
The Snows of Kilimanjaro 198
EUDORA WELTY (1909–2001) 2146
Petrified Man 2148
JOHN CHEEVER (1912–1982) 2248
The Swimmer 2250
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908–1963) 2133
Cuttings 2134
Cuttings (later) 2135
My Papa’s Waltz 2138
“Art for Arts Sake”
The Modernist
The Lost Generation
The Jazz Age
The Harlem Renaissance
Literature Response 2 Due
Southern Gothic Modernism
Political Poetry
The Avant-Garde Traditionalist
Literature Response #3 Due
Late Modernism and Southern Literature
Alienation in Suburbia
Midterm Handed out

5/17
5/18
5/19
5/20
5/24
5/25
5/26
5/27
5/31
6/1
6/2
6/3
Elegy for Jane 2144
I Knew a Woman 2145
Wish for a Young Wife 2145
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911–1983) 2184
A Streetcar Named Desire 2186
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911–1983) 2184
A Streetcar Named Desire 2186
ROBERT CREELEY (1926–2005) 2567
Kore 2569
I Know a Man 2570
For Love 2570
The Messengers 2572
The Birds 2572
Fathers 2573
DENISE LEVERTOV (1923–1997) 2502
To the Snake 2503
The Jacob’s Ladder 2504
In Mind 2504
September 1961 2505
What Were They Like? 2506
Caedmon 2507
KURT VONNEGUT (b. 1922) 2460
Slaughterhouse-Five 2461
Chapter One 2461
FLANNERY O’CONNOR (1925–1964) 2521
The Life You Save May Be Your Own 2522
Good Country People
RALPH ELLISON (1914–1994) 2297
Invisible Man 2298
Prologue 2298
Chapter I [Battle Royal] 2304
ARTHUR MILLER (1915–2005) 2325
Death of a Salesman 2327
Death of a Salesman 2327
Happy Memorial Day
POSTMODERN MANIFESTOS 2485
RONALD SUKENICK: Innovative Fiction/Innovative Criteria 2486
WILLIAM H. GASS: The Medium of Fiction 2488
HUNTER S. THOMPSON: From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 2492
CHARLES OLSON: From Projective Verse 2493
FRANK O’HARA:
From Personism: A Manifesto 2495
ELIZABETH BISHOP: From Letter to Robert Lowell,
March 21, 1972 2497
A. R. AMMONS: From A Poem Is a Walk 2499
AUDRE LORDE: From Poetry Is Not a Luxury 2501
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926–1997) 2574
Howl 2576
Footnote to Howl 2583
A Supermarket in California 2584
Sunflower Sutra 2585
To Aunt Rose 2587
On Burroughs’Work 2588
Ego Confession 2589
ANNE SEXTON (1928–1974) 2641
The Truth the Dead Know 2642
The Starry Night 2642
Sylvia’s Death 2643
Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman 2645
The Death of the Fathers 2647
ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929) 2649
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 2651
“I Am in Danger—Sir—” 2654
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 2655
Diving into the Wreck 2656
Power 2658
Modern American Drama
Deconstructing Marriage
Black Mountain Poets
Metafiction
Midterm Due
The Post-Modern Southern Gothic
Racial Alienation
Tragedy of the American Dream
NO CLASS
Literature Response 4 Due
“The re-evaluation of the entire Western value system”
The Beats
Confessional poetry and the construction of self

6/7
6/8
6/9
6/10
6/14
6/15
6/16
6/17
6/21
Transcendental Etude 2658
Shattered Head 2662
Five O’clock, January 2003 2663
Wait 2664
SYLVIA PLATH (1932–1963) 2698
Morning Song 2700
Lady Lazarus 2701
Ariel 2703
Daddy 2704
JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927) 2603
Illustration 2605
Soonest Mended 2606
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2608
Myrtle 2619
AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) (b. 1934) 2743
Dutchman 2745
An Agony. As Now. 2758
A Poem for Willie Best 2759
Will They Cry When You’re Gone, You Bet
TONI MORRISON (b. 1931) 2684
Recitatif 2685
RAYMOND CARVER (1938–1988) 2827
Cathedral 2828
DAVID MAMET (b. 1947) 3040
Glengarry Glen Ross 3042
DAVID MAMET (b. 1947) 3040
Glengarry Glen Ross 3042
ART SPIEGELMAN (b. 1948) 3090
From Maus 3091
AMY TAN (b. 1952) 3154
Two Kinds 3155
ALICE WALKER (b. 1944) 3009
Everyday Use 3010
LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) 3172
Dear John Wayne 3173
SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954) 3163
Woman Hollering Creek 3164
WRITING IN A TIME OF TERROR: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 3205
From The 9/11 Commission Report 3206
JOHN UPDIKE: [Comment] from The New Yorker 3210
KIMIKO HAHN: Her Very Eyes 3212
PATTIANN ROGERS: Grief 3213
BRENDAN GALVIN: Fragments #1 and #3 3214
DAVID RAY: Six Months After 3215
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE: Shoulders 3216
C. D. WRIGHT: On the Eve of Our Mutually Assured
The New York School
The Greatest Living American Author?
Minimalism and Dirty Realism
Post-Modern American Tragedy
Literature Response 5 Due
The Graphic Novel
Feminist Domestic Disputes
Feminist Identity Narratives
Post-9/11 World
6/23
Destruction 3217
D. NURKSE: The Reunification Center 3218
Final Presentations