Syllabus
| WEEK ONE -- POETRY | |
| Monday, September 27 | Donne, "Good Morrow," "Sunne Rising" |
| Wednesday, September 29 | Donne, "Canonization," "Anniversarie" |
| Friday, October 1 | Donne, "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "Valediction: Of My Name" |
| WEEK TWO -- MORE LOVE POETRY | |
| Monday, October 4 | Creeley, Love Comes Quietly,” “Oh Love,” “Goodbye” (handouts) |
| Wednesday, October 6 | Creeley, “Ballad of the Despairing Husband,” “For Love: for Bobbie,” “Do you think . . .” (handouts) |
| Friday, October 8 | Writing workshop |
| WEEK THREE - THE PASTORAL MODE | |
| Monday, October 11 | Marlowe, "Passionate Shepherd"; Marvell, "The Garden" |
| Wednesday, October 13 | Wordsworth, "To My Sister"; Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| Friday, October 15 | Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas"; Gluck, "Mock Orange" |
| WEEK FOUR -- SONNETS | |
| Monday, October 18 | Shakespeare, sonnets 18, 29, 94, 129, 138 (handout) |
| Wednesday, October 20 | Sonnets by Keats, Barrett Browning, Millay (in Making of a Poem) |
| Friday, October 22 | |
| WEEK FIVE -- DRAMA | |
| Monday, October 25 | Edson, Wit |
| Wednesday, October 27 | Edson, Wit |
| Friday, October 29 | Donne, Holy Sonnets V, VI, IX, X |
| WEEK SIX -- DRAMA | |
| Monday, November 1 | Writing workshop |
| Wednesday, November 3 | Nichols and Thompson, Wit (adaptation for TV) |
| Friday, November 5 | NO CLASS -- READING PERIOD |
| WEEK SEVEN -- FICTION | |
| Monday, November 8 | Baxter, "Gryphon"; Moore, "You're Ugly Too" |
| Wednesday, November 10 | Alexie, "What it Means ..."; Bloom, "Silver Water" |
| Friday, October 8 | Excerpts from Aristotle's Poetics (handout) |
| WEEK EIGHT -- FICTION | |
| Monday, November 15 | Mukherjee, "Management of Grief"; Smith, "Intensive Care" |
| Wednesday, November 17 | Banks, "Sarah Cole" |
| Friday, November 19 | Wallace, "Little Expressionless Animals" (handout) |
| WEEK NINE -- FICTION | |
| Monday, November 22 | O'Brien, "The Things They Carried" |
| Wednesday, November 24 | NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING |
| Friday, November 26 | NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING |
| WEEK TEN -- FICTION | |
| Monday, November 29 | Writing workshop |
| Wednesday, December 1 | Saunders, "Sea Oak" (handout) |
| Friday, October 8 | |
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