EN407 20^th C. Lit, Spring 05

E. Gadzinski, Libr. 319, 635-2115, egadzinski@lssu.edu , Office hrs. mtwrf 1-3 or by appt.

Class Schedule:

Jan. 31 Hardy: Hap, Channel Firing, The Voice, The Oxen

Feb 2 Conrad: Heart of Darkness

4 Conrad: Heart of Darkness

7 Amy Lowell: The Pike; Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken, Birches, Desert

Places

9 Edward Thomas: Adlestrop; A.E. Housman: Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff

Love

11 Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est, Disabled, Ivor Gurney, To His Love

14 Siegfried Sassoon: Repression of War Experience; David Jones, from In

Parenthesis

16 E. E. Cummings, my sweet old etcetera, I sing of Olaf glad and big

18 Selections from Doughboy Doggerel (handout)

21 T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

23 Eliot: The Wasteland

25 The Wasteland

SPRING BREAK: Recommended reading: Graves and Hodge, the Long Weekend (on reserve)—chapters Armistice 1918; Women; Reading Matter; Amusements; Sex; Art, Literature, and Religion

Mar 7 Ezra Pound: In a Station at the Metro; The River Merchant’s Wife: a Letter,

Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Life and Contacts)

9 Virginia Woolf: The Mark on the Wall

11 Susan Glaspell: Trifles

14 W. B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Inisfree, The Second Coming, Sailing to

Byzantium, An Irish Airman Forsees His Death, The Magi, Politics

16 Dorothy Parker: The Waltz

18 William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheel Barrow, This is Just to Say, To

Elsie

21 Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,

Anecdote of the Jar, The Snow Man

23 W. H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts

24 No Class (Instructor out of town)

28 Gavin Ewart: When a Beau Goes In; Keith Douglas: Vergissmeinicht,

Aristocrats; Henry Reed: Naming of Parts

29 Randall Jarell: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner; James Dickey: The

Firebombing; Lincoln Kerstein: Fall In, 8^th Armored.

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27 Final Paper due