Please have each reading on hand on the day it is assigned. Please note that while computer screens are acceptable, accessing and reading texts on phones will not be adequate to the demands of the class; see “links” for my rationale in strongly recommending paper texts for longer pieces.
Barbauld (read “The Mouse’s Petition”)
Robert Burns (please read all three poems but do not annotate)
Blake Songs (annotations are not required this session. Also, please note that there are TWO poems entitled “The Chimney Sweeper” in your assigned reading, one from Songs of Innocence and the other from Songs of Experience. )
p&p pages to annotate session 1
p&p to annotate 99-102 session 2
Patricia Matthew essay (please read–annotations this time are optional but can include questions we might have for Prof. Matthew)
4 poems from the modernist era:
(Please annotate at least two poems!)
Mrs. Dalloway (Dalloway excerpt for annotation, day 1)
lonely londoners excerpts (try this link for annotating! or this one! lonely_londoners_excerpts_sw)
barker from Union Street (We will not be discussing this text in class)
Ishiguro for annotation (Please annotate for class on Weds May 5th)
by the burn (no annotation)
poems for final project (no annotations!):
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- Larkin
- Heaney_sw
- Fleur Adcock adcock_sw
- Muldoon
- Linton Kwesi Johnson inglan
- Boland_sw
- Moniza Alvi
- Carol Ann Duffy duffy_sw
- breeze wife
- Jackie Kay jackie_kay
- Paula Meehan paula_meehan
- Patience AgbabiAgbabi
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