T 8/28 Course Introduction
Jack Spicer, “Any fool can get into an ocean…”
Robert Duncan, “Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow”

Poetry

Th 8/30 William Shakespeare, Sonnets 18, 20, 126
John Donne, “The Flea”, “Elegy XIX”
George Herbert, “The Altar”

T 9/4 John Milton, Paradise Lost: Book IX
Th 9/6 William G. Riggs, “The Temptation of Milton’s Eve” 

T 9/11 NO CLASS
Th 9/13 Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “On Imagination”, “To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”, “To His Excellency General Washington”

T 9/18 NO CLASS
Th 9/20 Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: “Objects”

T 9/25 Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: “Food” and “Rooms”
Th 9/27 Paper 1 (poetry explication) due
Catharine Stimpson, “The Somagrams of Gertrude Stein”

Drama

T 10/2 Aristotle, Poetics
Th 10/4 Tony Kushner, Angels in America Part 1, Act 1

T 10/9 Tony Kushner, Angels 1, Acts 2 & 3
Th 10/11 Tony Kushner, Angels 2, Acts 1 & 2

T 10/16 Tony Kushner, Angels 2, Acts 3 & 4
Th 10/18 Tony Kushner, Angels 2, Act 5 & Epilogue

Prose

T 10/23 Paper 2 (apply a theory of aesthetics to Kushner) due
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
Th 10/25 Field Trip: “Effective/Defective James Baldwin,” Shepard Hall 95

T 10/30 Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
Th 11/1 Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wall-paper” and “Why I Wrote ‘The
Yellow Wall-paper’?”

T 11/6 Mark Twain, Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven: Part 1
Th 11/8 Mark Twain, Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven: Part 2

T 11/13 Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower: 1-5
Th 11/15 Proposal & Annotated Bibliography due 
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower: 5-9

T 11/20 NO CLASS
Th 11/22 NO CLASS

T 11/27 Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower: 10-13
Th 11/29 Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower: 14-16

T 12/4 Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower: 17-20
Th 12/6 Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower: 21-25

T 12/11 Final Essay (research) due