Resources

Supplementary Notes

Guide to Prosody

Notes and Queries on Hughes and Stevens

Companion to Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

Preview of the Final Exam

Electronic Texts

William Cullen Bryant - "The Prairies" (PDF)

Walt Whitman - reading from Leaves of Grass for Week Three (PDF format) - strongly recommended

Walt Whitman - reading from Leaves of Grass for Week Three (Word format) - only in case you can't open PDFs*

(Note: Page numbers of the Word document corresponding to the page numbers in the PDF are listed to assist you in case you need to use the Word document.)

Selections from Civil War poetry (distributed in class March 1)

Selections from Dickinson's letters to T.W. Higginson (PDF) (will be distributed as handout)

Four extra Dickinson poems for class (PDF) (will be distributed as handout)

Three extra Hughes poems for class (PDF) (will be distributed as handout)

One extra poem by Stevens (PDF) (will be distributed as handout)