Pre-Twentieth Century Shakespeare's Sonnets George Herbert: (The Altar, The Collar, Easter Wings, Love (III)) John Donne: (The Relic, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Death be not Proud, Batter My Heart) John Milton's Lycidas Friederich Schiller: (The Walk) William Blake: (Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Innocence and Experience) William Wordsworth: (The Prelude Books 1, 2 & 6, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Ode: Intimations on Immortality, Tintern Abbey) Samuel Coleridge: (Dejection: an Ode, This Limetree Bower my Prison, First 2 chapters of Biographia Literaria) John Keats: all the Odes, samples of Letters (Benjamin Bailey Nov. 22 1817; Especially to John Taylor Feb. 27 1818; Oct 27 1918 Richard Woodhouse; Fanny Braun July 15 1819) Percy Bysshe Shelley: (Adonais, A Defense of Poetry, Ozymandias) Charles Baudelaire: (Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris Spleen) Arthur Rimbaud: (Illuminations, The Drunken boat) Stephane Mallarme; (Un Coup De Des) Gerard Manley Hopkins: (Sonnets) Walt Whitman: (preface to Leaves of Grass, Leaves of Grass) Emily Dickinson: (Complete Poems) |
Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens W.C. Williams H.D. Marianne Moore T.S. Eliot Lorine Niedecker George Oppen Robert Duncan Robert Creeley Three writers I have been reading this month: Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett on Marcel Proust, Brian Teare |