Chapter 1 - Extensive and Intensive Americans

Tuesday, September 10

• Emily Dickinson, all poems in (N) except 303, 341, & 1670
  
• Mentor Book of Major American Poets, Dickinson selection (H)
• Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in possibility" (W)
• Emily Dickinson, brief bio (W)
• American Legion statement on telling American history (1925) (W)
• Hortense Landauer, "For Emily Dickinson" (H & W)
• Dorothy Aldis on Dickinson in 1930
• "meter", "line", "foot", "iamb", "couplet", "ballad meter", "assonance" (all W)

Thursday, September 12

• Walt Whitman, "The Sleepers" (W), "Song of Myself," cantos 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 6, 47, 52 (N)
• Walt Whitman as remembered by the radical "Mother Bloor" (W)
• Explore Whitman links (W)
• Walt Whitman's style according to communist critic Samuel Sillen in 1955 (W)
• "repetition" (W)
• William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe" (WCW 86), "Smell!" (WCW 92), "The Catholic Bells" (W397)
• Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California" (W, N), "Homework" (N), "Love Poem on a Theme by Whitman" (H), "America" (N & W), "Mind Breaths" (H), "Sphincter" (W)
• "The Poetry of Barbarism" by George Santayana, partly about Whitman

Tuesday, September 17

• Emily Dickinson, 303, 341, 1670 (all in N), 1695, 1705 (W)
• Elizabeth Bishop, "Filling Station" (B)
• audio: Elizabeth Bishop reading "Filling Station" (courtesy of The Factory School Library of Recorded Sounds)
• Lorine Niedecker, "You are my friend," "Grandfather advised me" (B & W)

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