22 Feb
Introduction

1 Mar
Robert Herrick, “Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may,” “Ah Ben! Say how or when,” “Fair Pledges of a Fruitful Tree,” “Ye have been fresh and green”
Ben Jonson, “Thou art not, Penshurst,” “Here lies, to each her parents’ ruth,” “Fine Madam Would-be, wherefore should you fear”
George Herbert: “Church Monuments,” “Peace”
Frederick Seidel, “Surf’s Up”*

8 Mar
A. E. Housman, “Reveille”
Mother Goose rhymes
Jeffrey Yang, “Devil”*
Vona Groarke, “Vanishing Point”*
A. E. Stallings, “For a Young Turkish Violinist”*
Robert Scholes, “Reading Poetry: A Lost Art”, from The Crafty Reader^

15 Mar
Ange Mlinko, “A Midsummer Night’s Work”*
Catherine Barnett, “The Sky Flashes”*
Ben Lerner, “The Pistil”*

22 Mar
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Nate Klug, “The Pokémon Go People”*
Henri Cole, “Black Mushrooms”*
Jane Yeh, “A Short History of Style”*
Jonathan Culler, “Lyric, History and Genre”^

29 Mar
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath”
Christina Rosetti, “The irresponsive silence of the land...”
Stephanie Burt, The Poem is You (chapters on James Merrill, Rae Armantrout, Lucie Brock-Broido)^

5 Apr
William Wordsworth, “Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont”, “Ode (There was a time when meadow…)”
Adrienne Rich, poems^

12 Apr
Mutlu Konuk Blasing, Introduction, Lyric Poetry: The Pain and Pleasure of Words^
Anonymous, “In somer when the shawes be sheyne”
William Barnes, “The aïr to gi'e your cheäks a hue”, "I got two fields"
Thomas Traherne, “How Like an Angel came I down”

19 Apr: National Holiday

26 Apr
William Wordsworth, "Yew Trees"
John Clare, "Beside a runnel build my shed"
William Blake, "The Little Vagabond"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Mariana"
John Marston, "The nut-brown ale, the nut-brown ale"
Jorie Graham, "It Cannot Be" [handout]

3 May
Jahan Ramazani, “Poetry and the News,” from Poetry and Its Others^
Walter Savage Landor, "Lines to a Dragon-Fly"
Angela Leighton, "Pickpocket, Naples"

10 May
H. D. poems^
Rupi Kaur poems^

17 May
Susan Stewart, “Lyric Possession”^
Atticus poems^
Dylan Thomas poems^

24 May
Students prepare a 5 minute presentation that reviews the course. For instance, you may like to cover the areas of knowledge and skills that the course provided, or consider how it fits with other courses at the dept. The floor will be yours.

*Poems marked with an asterisk can be found in the file “Reading Poems Reader” on the IS in the course description (available in both DOCX and PDF formats).
^Texts marked with a caret can be found on the IS.