Here you'll find various and sundry items to help you
through the course.
Random Fun
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Readings | Writing Assignments | Writing Suggestions | General Information
Readings
- Poetry Handout
- What
Is a Poem? Atlantic
Monthly
- Shakespeare "My Mistress"; Addonizio "First Poem for You"
- Wordsworth "It is a Beautous Evening," "The World is Too Much With Us," "The Tables Turned" and Blake "The Tyger" "The Lamb"; selections from A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
- Dickinson "I Died for Beauty" (manuscript of poem -- no way of getting around it: very cool); "It Dropped so Low"
- Szymborska "The End and the Beginning"
- Lux "A Little Tooth"; Bishop "One Art" "The Fish"
- Poetry Month Readings: Gerald Stern "Still Burning" "Swifts" "This is It"; Anne Marie Macari "The Changing Coat"
- The Consolations of Strangeness -- review of poetry that offers great descriptions of what poetry is.
Writing Assignments
Writing Suggestions
General
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