Chapter 5 - The Reaction "against" Modernism: The Formalist Backlash

Tuesday, October 22

• John Crowe Ransom, "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" (N)
• Allen Tate, "Narcissus as Narcissus" (W)
• Allen Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (N)
• (To be read with Tate's critique of liberal "identification" with war, an article about U. S. journalists who covered the Gulf War.)
• Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" (N & W)
• The first line of "Mending Wall" read by Filreis as pure iambics (Audio .au format)
• The first line of "Mending Wall" read by Filreis as Frost might have (Audio .au format)
• "Justices Rule That Congress Overstepped Bounds Scalia and Breyer Trade Quotes from 'Mending Wall,'" by Linda Greenhouse (New York Times, Wednesday, April 19, 1995) (W)
• Editorial published in Pennsylvania Gazette criticizing Oldenberg's "Button" sculpture
• Cowboy poetry: 'Robert Haas, who teaches American Poetry at Berkeley, went to a cowboy poetry reading in Wyoming. "I was abashed and hugely amused," he says. Haas compares the poems he heard to the popular newspaper poems of the 19th century. "I guess you could say that modernism took poetry away from ordinary people, and cowboy poetry is one way of taking it back."'

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