English 4470 schedule, fall 2011

Updated 12/3/11

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Monday, August 15  

Course syllabus
2000-4000 grades and grading

Introduction to course
Simple Stuff 
Wednesday, August 17 Student info (online)

Golden rules
Ecco Anthology
: "Ranch Girl," pp. 551-58
  "Off" 107-18
  "Television" 209-12
  "Reunion" 297-305

 
Thursday, August 18

Drop/add ends

   
Monday, August 22   Nuggets
Ecco
: "The Toughest Indian in the World" 1-13
  "1-900" 53-74
  "The Girl on the Plane" 325-42
 
Wednesday, August 24   Quotes and documentation
Ecco
: "Cowboy" 525-35
  "Aurora" 213-26
  "A House on the Plains" 227-51
 
Monday, August 29 Syllabus input On plagiarism
Ecco
: "The Identity Club" 153-72
  "The New Automaton Theater" 559-77
 
Wednesday, August 31   Word problems
Ecco
: "Double Exposure" 397-415
  "Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine" 445-69
  "Saulte Ste. Marie" 537-49
 
Monday, Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday Labor Day holiday 
Labor Day holiday
Wednesday, Sept. 7   Ecco: "Reve Haitien" 307-24
  "Some Terpsichore" 511-24
  "Landfill" 607-28
 
Monday, Sept. 12   Ecco: "Who Invented the Jump Shot" 727-48
  "Bullet in the Brain" 749-54
  "Escort" 647-50
 
Wednesday, Sept. 14 Class canceled Class canceled Class canceled
Monday, Sept. 19   Ecco: "On the Rainy River" 629-46
Handout: "The Things They Carried"
 
Wednesday, Sept. 21   Ecco: "Paper Losses" 579-89
  "The Brown Chest" 697-704
 
Monday, Sept. 26   The Imperfectionists 1-74  
Wednesday, Sept. 28   The Imperfectionists 75-129  
Monday, October 3   The Imperfectionists 131-202 Paper 1 assigned
Wednesday, October 5   The Imperfectionists 203-69  
Monday, October 10 Paper proposal due   Midterm exam
Wednesday, Oct. 12 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
 
Norton: Sylvia Plath 593-615
 
Monday, October 17 Paper 1 due Norton: Allen Ginsberg 334-58  
Wednesday, Oct. 19   Norton: Elizabeth Bishop 15-17
     "The Fish" 21-22
     "At the Fishhouses" 26-28
     "In the Waiting Room" 34-36
     "Poem" 40-41
     "One Art" 43
  Karl Shapiro 68-69
     "The Fly" 69-70
     "The First Time" 70-71
  Robert Lowell 119-21
     "Waking Early Sunday Morning" 136-38
 
Monday, October 24   Norton: Delmore Schwartz 72-73
     "In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave" 73
     "The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me" 74
  Muriel Rukeyser 75-76
     "Absalom" 76-78
     "Alloy" 78-79
     "Poem" 82
  Gwendolyn Brooks 140-49
 
Wednesday, Oct. 26   Norton: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 162-66
  Philip Larkin 210-11
     "Water" 212
     "Church Going" 212-14
     "Talking in Bed" 218-19
     "High Windows" 221
     "The Be The Verse" 223-24
     "Aubade" 226-27
  Kenneth Koch 261
    "From Days and Nights" 265-66
 
Monday, October 31   Norton: James Merrill 305-7
    "The Broken Home" 307-9
    "Days of 1964" 309-11
    "Lost in Translation" 313-18
  Anne Sexton 431-38
 
Wednesday, November 2   Norton: A. K. Ramanujan 438-48
  Ted Hughes 558-71
 
Monday, November 7 Paper corrections Norton: Adrienne Rich 456-83  
Wednesday, November 9   Norton: Margaret Atwood 765-74
  Charles Simic 705-12
 
Monday, November 14   Norton: Rita Dove 974-87
   "The Day Lady Died" 365
   "Eating Poetry" 621-22
Paper 2 assigned
Wednesday, November 16  

Norton: Geoffrey Hill 581-92
   "Moonburn" 658
   "Penelope's Song" 823-24

 
Monday-Saturday,
November 21-26
Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday

Monday, November 28

Paper proposal due  Norton: Charles Bernstein 909-15
   "Sun" 829-31   
   "Anorexic" 845-46
 
Wednesday, November 30  

Sherman Alexie 1045-52
   "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" 407
   "Postcards from Kashmir" 889

   "The Hospital Window" 235-36
   "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio" 416

 

Monday, December 5

 

Catching up missed poems:
   "Lady Lazarus" 612-14
   "America" 347-49
   "Waking Early Sunday Morning" 136-38
   "Aubade" 226-27
   "Lost in Translation" 313-18
   "Wingfoot Lake" 985
   "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" 407
   "Postcards from Kashmir" 889

   "The Hospital Window" 235-36
   "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio" 416

 
Friday, December 9 Paper 2 due    
Final exam
Monday, December 12
3:30-5:30
     

Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.  I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.