1914-1945
Week of March 11/13
Introduction
Robert Frost- "Mending Wall," "Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Wallace Stevens- "Sunday Morning," "Of Modern Poetry"
William Carlos Williams- "Portrait of a Lady,"The Red Wheelbarrow," "This Is Just to Say"
Week of March 18/20
Ezra Pound- From A Retrospect
Langston Hughes- From The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
T.S. Eliot- "The Waste Land," "The Hollow Men"
Week of March 25/27
Zora Neale Hurston- "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
E.E. Cummings- "next to of course god america i," "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond"
John Steinbeck- "The Leader of the People"
After 1945
Week of April 8/10
Introduction
Elizabeth Bishop- "One Art"
Ralph Ellison- "Invisible Man-Chapter I"
Week of April 15/17
Flannery O'Connor- "Good Country People"
Adrienne Rich- "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
MLK Jr.- "I Have A Dream"
Maxine Hong Kingston- "No Name Woman"
Alice Walker- "Everyday Use"
Joan Didion- "From the Year of Magical Thinking"
Sherman Alexie- "Crow Testament"