English 402

American Literature in the twentieth century

 syllabus

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  Sherwood Anderson’s “Hands 

  Sherwood Anderson’s “Adventure

  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Bernice Bobs Her Hair

  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace

  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Off-Shore Pirate

 Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home”

 Langston Hughes’s “Slave on the Block”

 Denise Levertov poems

 

Online texts

  E.A. Robinson “The Master” and Lost Anchors

  Robert Frost “Tree at My Window

 Carl Sandburg “Gone

 Ezra Pound “The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance

 Amy Lowell “Patterns

 Sherwood Anderson “The Book of the Grotesque” and “Hands

 Edna St. Vincent Millay “God’s World” and “First Fig” with comment or without

 T.S. Eliot “The Wasteland” 1430-43 [audio version]

 Dorothy Parker “One Perfect Rose” with comment or without

 HD “Pear Tree

 Hart Crane “Forgetfulness

 Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” [audio commentary and text, 3 min], “Dream Deferred” [“Harlem”] and “I Dream a World

 William Carlos Williams “Love Song,” “Waiting,” “Complaint,”  The Great Figure,” “Dance Russe,” “Between Walls” scroll down, “The Locust Tree in Flower” scroll down, and from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

 Theodore Roethke “Night Journey

 W. S. Merwin “Term

 Sylvia Plath poems

 Adrienne Rich “Living in Sin

 Galway Kinnell “First Song

 Sharon Olds “I Go Back to May 1937,” “Topography,” “Adolescence,” “Coming of Age 1966,” and “True Love.”

 William Stafford “Ask Me

 Cathy Song “Losing Track

 Joy Harjo “A Postcolonial Tale” with audio

 Jorie Graham “The Surface,” “Mind” and “Woods

 

created by Stan Galloway, Bridgewater College, 28 January 2003.  Last updated 4 February 2003.  Contact me at sgallowa@bridgewater.edu