Syllabus, First Installment, Contemp. Lit

SYLLABUS
Contemporary Literature
Tuesday, Thursday 2:00-3:20
KH 208


AUGUST
T 31 Introduction.
Poetic Terms, what makes something literature? Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

Homework:
Read all of the biographical materials here:
Walt Whitman
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126
and the following poems:
America: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20157
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20006
I Sing the Body Electric:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15753
O Captain, My Captain!
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15754
Song of Myself:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15755
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20277
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16402
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16133
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16083
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20270

Emily Dickinson:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155


SEPTEMBER
H 09/02: Quiz and Discussion of Whitman, Dickinson.


T 09/07: Continued Discussion
Possible Movie.