Please note there is no class on Friday, 21 February, and Friday, 4 April. I will try to make up these classes at the end of the semester.

Because this course is being taught for the first time, some of the syllabus might change slightly during the course of the semester. Thanks for your understanding.

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Holub in the 1950s
Miroslav Holub, "Náš všední den je pevnina"
Pavel Blažíček, "Poezie všedního dne: Skupina Května 1956-1958"
Miroslav Holub, Denní služba (selection)

Weeks 3-4: American Roots
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)

Weeks 5-6: Arriving in Idlewild: Holub in the 1960s
Holub poems (see Sebrané básně)

Slabikář (1961)
Hodina dějepisu, Déšť v noci, Moucha, Cvičebnice mrtvého jazyka, Náves, Polonius, Láska, Kosti, "Prohřát lidským teplem", Křídla, Ruka, Óda na radost

Jdi a otevři dveře (1961)
Pes v lomu, Dveře, Advent, Vodník, Pohádka, Žito kouzelník, Vynálezy

Achilles a želva (1962)
Panoráma Prahy, Televize, Hlasy v krajině, Astronauti, Majakovský, Funkcionář, Lenin, Michelangelo staví průčelí San Lorenza

Kam teče krev (1963)
Model člověka

Tak zvané srdce (1963)
Diskobolos, To slovo, Plánování, Nový dům, Historie světa, Pád Troje, Jaké je srdce, Mléčný zub Hamleta prince, Infarkt,

Jiří Brabec, Afterword to Anamnéza, by Miroslav Holub
Pavel Blažíček, "Generace Května v šedesátých letech"
Miroslav Holub, Anděl na kolečkách (selections)

Week 7: Espionage & Poetry
Ian Milner, "Personal Statement," in Vincent O’Sullivan, Intersecting Lines: The Memoirs of Ian Milner (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1993). Mar. 1, 1956. As yet I have been unable to obtain the full text of this statement. Please let me know if you can find it.
Aaron Fox, "The Pedigree of Truth: Western Intelligence Agencies versus Ian Frank George Milner and William Ball Sutch," In Trapeznik, Alexander and Aaron Fox (eds) Lenin’s Legacy Down Under: New Zealand’s Cold War (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004), 115-130.
Denis Lenihan, "Was Ian Milner a Spy? A Review of the Evidence" (Wellington: New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, 2008), http://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/785/594
Petr Hrubý. "Ian Milner a spol." Nebezpeční snílci: australská levice a Československo. Trans. Petr Hrubý and Libuše Kodešová. Brno: Stilus, 2007. 123-96.
Jan Čulík, "Jak "byl básník Miroslav Holub u estébáků" http://www.britskelisty.cz/9901/19990126g.html

Weeks 8-9: The World According to Mr Alvarez
Al Alvarez, "Beyond All This Fiddle"
--, Introduction to The New Poetry, "Beyond the Gentility Principle"
Poems by Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, John Berryman, Philip Larkin, from The New Poetry (2^nd ed., 1966)William Wootten, "Fifty Years On: The Triumph of the Penguin Modern Poets," TLS 25 Apr. 2012. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1024506.ece

Week 10: An Englished Pigeon
Al Alvarez, Introduction. Selected Poems, by Miroslav Holub. Trans. Ian Milner and George Theiner. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. 9-17.
A. Alvarez, "Czechoslovakia," from Under Pressure: The Writer in Society: Eastern Europe and the U.S.A. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965)
TLS reviews of Holub (1967, 1971)
Seamus Heaney, "The Fully Exposed Poem" (on Holub)
Justin Quinn, "California Dreaming: Miroslav Holub and Seamus Heaney." In Ireland and the Czech Lands, eds. Ondřej Pilný and Gerald Power (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), 177-99.

Weeks 11-13: Late Auden, Mid-Life Ginsberg, Early Heaney
The poems below should be available online. If there is a problem let me know as soon as possible.
Auden poems: Under Which Lyre, The Fall of Rome, In Praise of Limestone, A Walk After Dark, Ischia, The Shield of Achilles, Bucolics, Horae Canonicae, Homage to Clio, Thanksgiving for a Habitat
Ginsberg poems: Kral Majales, Wichita Vortex Sutra, September on Jessore Road, Reading Bai Juyi
Heaney poems: North