PLEASE RESERVE A PLACE FOR ME
AT THE American Classics Reading Course
WEXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL
PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE
invites you to join us for
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American Classics
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A reading for pleasure programme
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 Places are limited to the first fifteen applicants, strictly
on a first come, first served basis.
 Complete and return this form before 15th October
2010.
 Application forms should be forwarded to:
Barbara Nolan
Gorey Library Centre
Main Street, Gorey,
Co Wexford
Tel: 053 94 21481
YOUR PLACE WILL BE CONFIRMED TO YOU.
Should you require additional supports to enable you
fully participate in this event please contact Gorey
Library. 053-94 21481
with poet and critic, Dr. Paul Perry
GOREY LIBRARY
Thursday mornings
November and December 2010
10:30 sharp – 12.30
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
COURSE CONTENT
November 4th
Walt Whitman
Introduction to the Course and to the poet,
November 11th Herman Melville's Moby Dick, The White
Chapter [Ch. 42]
November 18th Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, The yellow wall
paper [short story]
November 25th F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby
December 2nd
Ernest Hemingway's, The sun also rises
You will
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enjoy reading more critically
appreciate the craft and disciplines of writing more fully
consider some of the best writers, past times and
present
learn with other people who share your interest.
CORE TEXTS
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. [published 1925] any
edition
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall Paper
[published 1892] any edition
Ernest Hemmingway, The sun also rises. [published 1926]
any edition.
http://www.archive.org/stream/sunalsorises030276mbp/sunal
sorises030276mbp_djvu.txt
COURSE LEADER
Dr. Paul Perry is the author and editor of a number of critically
acclaimed books including The Drowning of the Saints
[2003] , Goldsmith's Ghost [2002] , 108 Moons [2009] , The
Orchid Keeper [2006]and The Last Falcon and Small
Ordinance [2010]. His study of the American writer Amy
Clampitt, Nomadic Imagination, is forthcoming.
Paul teaches creative writing and literature for Kingston
University, London, and University College Dublin. He is
Course Director in Poetry for the Faber Academy in Dublin.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick. [published 1851] any edition.
Chapter 42 is available online at
http://www.americanliterature.com/Melville/MobyDickorTheW
hale/43.html
Walt Whitman, The complete poems of Walt Whitman.
Wordsworth Poetry Library, 2006. ISBN: 9781853264337 –
selected poems will be supplied.
http://www.poemhunter.com/walt-whitman/
These texts may be borrowed from Wexford Public Libraries.
Membership is free. Search the library catalogue at
www.wexford.ie/library/catalogue