Readings for the Rest of Session II -- Summer 2010

Here are the readings for the rest of our time together.  Those that we discuss in class will be on the final.  I also encourage you to read through the background readings on Multiply!



On Tuesday 8/3, we will finish watching Nosferatu, and we will discuss "The Yellow Wallpaper" and the following poems by Emily Dickinson: "A narrow Fellow in the Grass," "They shut me up in Prose," "Much Madness is Divinest Sense," "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--,"  "The Soul has Bandaged Moments," and "I Heard a Fly buzz."  All but the last reading will be in Vol. 5 of our anthology.  See this link for the last poem:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15393



For Wednesday 8/4, we will read Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Vol. 5) as well as Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (Vol. 5.  Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes" will be an extra reading for those who have the time:
http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/eveofstagnes.html .)
You may also like to read Charles Baudelaire's "Albatross" in Vol. 5.



Thursday (8/5) is the beginning of our unit on folk tales.  
For Charles Perrault's "Little Red Riding Hood," see this link:   http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html#perrault
See the following link for the Brothers Grimm's "Little Red Cap":   http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm026.html
"The Goose Girl" is here:   http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm089.html
"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" follow:  http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/index.html
See the following link for two versions of "Hansel and Gretel":  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm015a.html
"The Girl Without Hands" follows:  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html



These readings may spill over onto Monday 8/9.  We will add "Godfather Death":  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm044.html.
as well as I.B. Singer's "Gimpel the Fool":  http://salvoblue.homestead.com/gimpel.html

For Tuesday 8/10 and Wednesday 8/11, we will read Voltaire's Candide in Vol. 4.



Then on Thursday 8/12, we will finish up with some modern poetry. 
Let's start with Mary Ellen Solt's "Forsythia":  http://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Solt-Mary-Ellen_Forsythia.html
Since we've already read poems by Emily Dickinson, we'll read some by Walt Whitman.  First is his "I Hear America Singing":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752

Next is his "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20006

Last is his "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20270

I'll add Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California": http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15306

Let's finish with Gwendolyn Brooks' "the rites for cousin vit":  http://www.tcsn.net/jackie/Archive/gwendolyn_brooks.htm

and Ruben Dario's "Walt Whitman," "Autumn," and "Theodore Roosevelt":
http://faculty.tamucc.edu/stalley/2335Resources/DarioWhitman.htm

http://www.dariana.com/R_Dario_poems.html#in_autumn

http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/dario.html



The final will be a take home, due to me by Monday 8/15.