Chapter 2 - Modernism

Thursday, September 19 - The Rise of Imagism

• Introduction to Imagism & "A Sheaf of Imagist Poems" (B)
• Imagism briefly defined (W)
• H.D. [Hilda Doolittle], "Sea Rose" (N & W), "Garden" (N), "Oread" (N)
• Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro" (N), "The Encounter" (W)
• William Carlos Williams, "Lines" (WCW 378), "The Great Figure" (WCW 174), "so much depends" or "The Red Wheelbarrow" (WCW 224 & W), "Flowers by the Sea" (WCW 378), "Between Walls" (WCW 453)
• Carl Rakosi, "ZZZZZZ" (W)
• Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways...Blackbird" (N & W), "Study of Two Pears" (N)
• Ernest Hemingway, from the story "On the Quai at Smyrna" (B), from the story "Big Two-Hearted River" (B)
• "haiku" (W), "free verse" (W)
• (example of latter-day imagism) Bruce Weigl, "Rapture" (1992) (W)

Tuesday, September 24 - Williams: No Ideas But in Things!

• William Carlos Williams, "Complaint" (WCW 153), pages from Spring & All (WCW 177-82), "By the road to the contagion hospital" (WCW 183), "My luv" (WCW 240), "Paterson" (WCW 263-66), "Young Love" (WCW 389-91), "The Attic Which Is Desire" (WCW 325), both versions of "Young Woman at a Window" (WCW 373), "This Is Just to Say" (WCW 372), Note to "This Is Just to Say" (WCW 536), "The rose is obsolete" (WCW 195 & W) (from Spring and All of 1923)
• Williams, "A poem is a small...machine" (W)
• Note on Edward Hopper (W)
• Carl Peterson, "Poem against the Instructor of Writing" (W)

Thursday, September 26 - Stevens: The Aesthetic Ideology

• Wallace Stevens, "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock," "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself," "The Plain Sense of Things" (all in N), "Gray Room" (W), "The Snow Man" (N & W), "Anecdote of the Jar" (N)
• Browse a general Stevens web site

Tuesday, October 1 - Stein: The Grammar Turned & Attacked Me (Part 1)

• Gertrude Stein, headnote in (N), "What Do I See" (N), "Let Us Describe" (N & W), general introduction to Stein (B), excerpt from Three Lives (B), "Tender Buttons" (B), "Ireland" (B), "Readings" (B & W), "Dinner" (B), passage from "Lifting Belly" (B), "A Very Valentine" (W), brief biographical profile (W)
• Michael Gold on Gertrude Stein, "A Literary Idiot" (from the Communist New Masses) (W)
• Gertrude Stein on narrative (W)
• Gertrude Stein on textual movement (W)
• Gertrude Stein, on composition (W)
• Picasso's "Harlequin Playing the Guitar" (1918)
• Picasso's "Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler" (1910)
• Gertrude Stein, "If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Pablo Picasso)"
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• cubism as defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica (file only accessible through the upenn.edu domain)
• Ideas for teaching Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, including passages about Hemingway's linguistic cubism in relation to Stein's
• Three Musicians, by Pablo Picasso (1921) [Oil on canvas - Philadelphia Museum of Art: A.E. Gallatin Collection]
• Gertrude Stein, "Water Raining (W)
• Gertrude Stein, "Is Dead" (1936) (W)
• An interview with Stein (W)
• W. G. Rogers on Stein: not what it is, but what it does (W)
• Wallace Fowlie on Stein: a contract between words and thought (W)
• Gertrude Stein's review of Alfred Kreymborg's Troubador (B)
• Mark Van Doren's "First Glance," a review of the same book (W)
• Gertrude Stein, "Any one doing something and standing" (W)
• Gertrude Stein on similarity & difference (W)
• Gertrude Stein per John Ashbery from a 1957 review (W)
• Stein home page

Thursday, October 3 - The Riotous Twenties: Modernism at Extremes

• William Carlos Williams on the Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven (from his autobiography) (W)
• Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, "A Dozen Cocktails, Please" (W) (included in "Eleven Poems" in B)
• Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, "Eleven Poems" (B)
• "Animal Cruelty or Art?" (April 1996) (W)
• Kenneth Rexroth on the Baroness (B)
• Sara Teasdale, "The Look" (W)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, "First Fig," "Grown Up," "Love is Not All: It is Not Meat Nor Drink" (all in N)
• "sonnet" (W)
• John Peale Bishop, "The Wonders of Science" (B), "A Recollection" (B)

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