Chapter 6 - Poetry at the End of Ideology: The "New Formalists" of the 1950s

Thursday, October 24

• James Breslin, "The New Rear Guard" (B)
• Richard Wilbur, "Still, Citizen Sparrow" (N), "The Death of a Toad" (N), "Cottage Street, 1953" (B)
• Supplement: a personal post-mortem on teaching "The Death of a Toad" in English 88, with a point about irony in language
• William Jay Smith, "Epigrams" (W), "The World below the Window" (W)
• Adrienne Rich, headnote (N, p. 1317), "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" (N)
• Anthony Hecht, "Sestina d'Inverno" (N)
• "repetition" [again] (W), "sestina" (W)
• David Robey, "Anglo-American New Criticism" (B)
• Allen Ginsberg, "America" (N & W)
• David Antin, "Modernism & Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry" (B); biographical note on Antin (P 229-30)
• Allen Ginsberg, "Put Down Your Cigarette Rag (Don't Smoke)" (H)
• Allen Ginsberg as last seen (with reference to a performance of "Put Down Your Cigarette Rag" (W)
  • First Part - Hear it
  • Another Part - Hear it

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