Schedule

September 2  Th  Introduction  
September 7 T

Adrienne Rich, "Anne Bradstreet and Her Poetry"

Anne Bradstreet:

"Epistle to the Reader"
Introductory Verses
"To Her Most Honoured Father"
"Prologue"
"The Four Seasons"
"A Dialogue Between Old England and New"
"An Elegy Upon Sir Philip Sidney"
"In Honor of Du Bartas"

  
September 9 Th

"In Honour of Queen Elizabeth"

"David's Lamentation"
"To the Memory of Thomas Dudley Esq."
"An Epitaph on Mrs. Dorothy Dudley"
"Contemplations"
"The Flesh and the Spirit"
"The Vanity of All Worldly Things"
"The Author to her Book"
September 14 T [Reading Day]  
September 16 Th

Poems inserted posthumously in the 1678 edition

222-239

  
September 21 T The Andover manuscripts 240-295  
September 23 Th

Hensley, "Anne Bradstreet's Wreath of Thyme"

Wright, "Epitaphic Conventions and the Reception of Anne Bradstreet's Public Voice"

  
September 28 T

Alice Walker, "In Search of our Mothers' Gardens"

Phillis Wheatley:

Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral

title page-59

  
September 30 Th 60-127
October 5 T

Extant Poems not Included in the 1773 Poems

(129-157) and Prose (162-194)
October 7 Th Variant poems (195-225) Paper 1 due
October 12 T

Shields, "Preface" and "Phillis Wheatley's Struggle for Freedom in her Poetry and Prose"

Watson, "A Classic Case: Phillis Wheatley and Her Poetry"

  
October 14 Th Midterm Examination  
October 19 T

Susan Howe, from My Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson:

124, 378, 544, 733, 742, 858, 863, 917, 971, 1273, 1382

  
October 21 Th [Fall Break]  
October 26 T 14, 47, 49, 67, 77, 84, 125, 130, 165, 185, 190, 199, 211, 214, 241, 249, 252, 254, 258, 271, 280, 285, 288, 301, 303  
October 28 Th 314, 315, 322, 324, 327, 328, 338, 341, 357, 365, 381, 410, 425, 435, 441, 444, 446, 448, 449, 456, 465, 475, 479, 486, 501  
November 2 T 505, 508, 510, 512, 518, 528, 536, 556, 569, 579, 613, 632, 640, 650, 657, 668, 669, 670, 686, 709, 712, 732, 744, 754, 822  
 November 4 Th  883, 986,1052, 1071, 1072, 1100, 1129, 1138, 1207, 1219, 1261, 1304, 1400, 1401, 1445, 1545, 1551, 1651, 1670, 1705, 1732, 1737, 1755,
1760, 1769		  
November 9 T

Adrienne Rich, "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson"

Burbick, "Emily Dickinson and the Economics of Desire" McGann, "Emily Dickinson's Visible Language"

  
November 11 Th

Judy Grahn, from Really Reading Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein:

"One or Two. I've Finished."
"Study Nature"
"Dates"
"Go in Green"
"Emp Lace"

  
November 16 T "Lifting Belly"  
November 18 Th "Men"
"A Birthday Book"
"New"
"With a Wife"		  
November 23 T "Patriarchal Poetry"  
     Thanksgiving  
November 30 T  "Stanzas in Meditation"  
 December 2  Th

 Dydo, "Stanzas in Meditation: The Other Autobiography"

Stimpson, "The Somagrams of Gertrude Stein"

  
December 3 Th Conclusion Paper 2 due

 

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