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| 1 | Introduction: Dickinson, Emily. My Life had Stood. Plath, Sylvia. Metaphors. Voigt, Ellen. Sweet Everlasting. Initial distribution: List of Tropes. |
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| 2 | Shakespeare, William. Selected sonnets. | |
| 3 | Shakespeare, William. Selected sonnets (continued). Aristotle. Poetics. Richards, I. A. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. |
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| 4 | Shakespeare, William. Selected sonnets (continued). Donne, John. Selected poems. |
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| 5 | Donne, John. Selected poems (continued). Todorov, Tzvetan. "The End of Rhetoric." In Theories of the Symbol. |
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| 6 | Donne, John. Selected poems (continued). Brooks, Cleanth. "The Language of Paradox." In The Well-Wrought Urn. |
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| 7 | Campion, Thomas. My Sweetest Lesbia. Johnson, Ben. To Penshurst. ---. Two Songs to Celia. ---. Inviting a Friend to Supper. ---. Still to be Neat. Herrick, Robert. Delight in Disorder. ---. Corinna's Going A-Maying. ---. To the Virgins. ---. A Night Piece to Julia. ---. Julia's Clothes. ---. The White Island. Herbert, George. The Collar. ---. The Pulley. ---. The Forerunners. Carew, Thomas. A Song. Waller, Edmund. Go Lovely Rose. Larkin, Philip. Vers de Societé. Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity. |
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| 8 | Campion, Johnson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Waller and Larkin (continued) | |
| 9 | Marvell, Andrew. The Coronet. ---. Bermudas. ---. Body and Soul. ---. Coy Mistress. ---. The Gallery. ---. Definition of Love. ---. The Mower Against Gardens. ---. The Garden. ---. On Appleton House. Davidson, Donald. "What Metaphors Mean." Gibbs, R. W., Jr. The Poetics of Mind. Chap. 1. |
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| 10 | Marvell (continued) | First paper due |
| 11 | Milton, John. Lycidas. ---. How Soon Hath Time. ---. When I consider how my light is spent. ---. Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint. Lakoff, George. "The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor." |
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| 12 | Milton (continued) | |
| 13 | Wordsworth. Tintern Abbey. Coleridge. Frost at Midnight. Lakoff and Turner. "The Power of Poetic Metaphor." |
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| 14 | Wordsworth and Coleridge (continued) | |
| 15 | Wordsworth and Coleridge (continued) Lakoff and Turner. "Image Schemas in Poetry." |
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| 16 | Keats, John. In Drear-Nighted December. ---. What the Thrush Said. ---. When I Have Fears. ---. La Belle Dame sans Merci. ---. Ode to a Nightingale. ---. Ode on Melancholy. ---. Ode on a Grecian Urn. ---. To Autumn. ---. Bright Star. |
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| 17 | Keats (continued) | |
| 18 | Yeats, William Butler. The Coat. ---. The Choice. ---. Politics. ---. Adam's Curse. ---. Wild Swans at Coole. ---. Easter 1916. ---. The Second Coming. ---. A Prayer for my Daughter. ---. Sailing to Byzantium. ---. Leda and the Swan. |
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| 19 | Yeats (continued) | |
| 20 | Arnold, Matthew. Dover Beach. Stevens, Wallace. The Snow Man. ---. The Emperor of Ice-Cream. ---. Sunday Morning. ---. Anecdote of the Jar. ---. Peter Quince at the Clavier. ---. The Idea of Order at Key West. ---. The Poems of our Climate. ---. Of Mere Being. ---. Tea at the Palaz of Hoon. ---. On the Manner of Addressing Clouds. ---. Of Heaven considered as a Tomb. ---. The Death of a Soldier. ---. Poem with Rhythms. |
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| 21 | Stevens (continued) | |
| 22 | Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. ---. The Waste Land. |
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| 23 | Frost, Robert. The Oven Bird. ---. Birches. ---. Stopping by Woods. ---. Acquainted with the Night. ---. Neither Far Out nor In Deep. ---. Design. ---. The Silken Tent. ---. Come In. ---. Never Again Would Birds. ---. The Most of It. ---. Directive. |
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| 24 | Frost (continued) Auden, W. H. As I Walked Out One Evening. ---. Funeral Blues. ---. Lullaby. ---. Musée des Beaux Arts. ---. In Memory of W. B. Yeats. |
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| 25 | Auden (continued) | |
| 26 | Larkin, Philip. Church Going. ---. An Arundel Tomb. ---. The Whitsun Weddings. ---. Talking in Bed. ---. Aubade. ---. I Remember. ---. High Windows. |
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| 27 | none | Third paper due |
This course does not have a final exam.