English 98: Junior Tutorial This Century in American Poetry (1914-2014) Course Requirements: weekly attendance and active participation in tutorial sessions oral presentation (15 min) on theoretical, critical, or historical readings prospectus (2pp) and bibliography (2pp) in preparation for Junior Paper library consultation with Laura Farwell-Blake, English Dept. Research Librarian Junior Paper (20-25pp) Required Texts: ed. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vols. 1 and 2, Ramazani, Ellmann and O’Clair (2003) ed. Donald Allen (1999) The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, other literary and critical readings, available online in .pdf format Schedule of Readings Week 1: Fragments and Ruins: Archaeologies of Modernism Ezra Pound, selections from (1915), (1920) Cathay Hugh Selwyn Mauberley of (1922) T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Preludes” (1917), The Waste Land Pound, selections from (1934) “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” (1913), ABC of Reading Eliot, and “Tradition the Individual Talent” (1919) Week 2: Flux and Materials: Principles of Aesthetic Construction Gertrude Stein, selections from Tender Buttons (1914), “If I Told Him” (1923) Ezra Pound, selections from (1930) A Draft of XXX Cantos Franco Marinetti, “Futurist Manifesto” (1909) Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis, the BLAST (1914): “Long Live Vortex!”, “Manifesto – 1,” “Manifesto – 2” Pound, “Machine Art” (1927-30) Wendy Steiner, selection from Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: Literary Portraiture of (1979) Gertrude Stein Week 3: The Poet as Visionary I: Hart Crane Hart Crane, selections from (1926), selections from (1930) White Buildings The Bridge Letter to Crane, “A Harriet Monroe” (1926) Harold Bloom, introduction to (2001) The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
English 98: Junior Tutorial This Century in American Poetry (1914-2014) Course Requirements: weekly attendance and active participation in tutorial sessions oral presentation (15 min) on theoretical, critical, or historical readings prospectus (2pp) and bibliography (2pp) in preparation for Junior Paper library consultation with Laura Farwell-Blake, English Dept. Research Librarian Junior Paper (20-25pp) Required Texts: The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vols. 1 and 2, ed. Ramazani, Ellmann and O’Clair (2003) The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, ed. Donald Allen (1999) other literary and critical readings, available online in .pdf format Schedule of Readings Week 1: Fragments and Ruins: Archaeologies of Modernism Ezra Pound, selections from Cathay (1915), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Preludes” (1917), The Waste Land (1922) Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” (1913), selections from ABC of Reading (1934) Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) Week 2: Flux and Materials: Principles of Aesthetic Construction Gertrude Stein, selections from Tender Buttons (1914), “If I Told Him” (1923) Ezra Pound, selections from A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930) Franco Marinetti, “Futurist Manifesto” (1909) Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis, BLAST (1914): “Long Live the Vortex!”, “Manifesto – 1,” “Manifesto – 2” Pound, “Machine Art” (1927-30) Wendy Steiner, selection from Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: Literary Portraiture of Gertrude Stein (1979) Week 3: The Poet as Visionary I: Hart Crane Hart Crane, selections from White Buildings (1926), selections from The Bridge (1930) Crane, “A Letter to Harriet Monroe” (1926) Harold Bloom, introduction to The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (2001)
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