SYLLABUS

English 91A Stephen Dickey

Introduction to Poetry Humanities 284: 825-2943
Fall, 2013 TTh: 12:30-1:45 or by appt.
sdickey@humnet.ucla.edu

Teaching Assistants:
Taly Ravid Northern Lights: TTh 3:30-4:30 or by appt. travid@ucla.edu
Conor OSullivan Humanities A86: TTh 12:30-1:30 or by appt. osullivan@ucla.edu

Text: The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5
th
edition)

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9/26 Introduction: Homers sunrise

10/1 Slow Reading
10/3 Sound and Sense

10/8 a word that breathes distinctly
10/10 Riddles and Definitions: Figurative Language

10/15 The Exquisite Corpse
10/17 Persona, Perspective, and Irony

10/22 Formal Feelings: Shape and Structure
10/24 Formal Feelings: The Sonnet

10/29 Formal Feelings: Villanelle and Sestina
10/31 midterm exam

11/5 Love and Lust: Before
11/7 Love and Lust: After

11/12 Elegy: Death
11/14 Elegy: Time and Loss (recitation due)

11/19 Ornithology
11/21 Influence and Allusion (poem due)

11/26 Metapoetry: The Poem as Container (essay due)
11/28 Holiday

12/3 Metapoetry: Ekphrasis
12/5 Poetry of Witness and Protest