Week 2 (Feb 3): Meter and Rhythm
Tetrameter poems by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Keats, and Emily Dickinson; pentameter poems by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Alexander Pope, and John Keats.
John Hollander, Rhyme’s Reason, pp. 1-30.
Derek Attridge, The Rhythms of English Poetry, pp. 76-82, 123-129.
Henry Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis, pp. 5-10, 15-18, 27-30.
Week 3 (Feb 10): Words (Phonetics and Semantics)
Poems: Christian Bök, Eunoia (excerpt); Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary (excerpt); Jordan Scott, Blert (excerpt); Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Princess (excerpt). We will give special emphasis to Wallace Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West.”
William McGregor, Phonetics
Plato, Cratylus (excerpt)
Margaret Magnus, A History of Sound Symbolism (excerpt)
International Phonetics Association, Handbook (excerpt) and IPA Chart
Week 4 (Feb 17): Rhyme
Week 5 (Feb 24): Poetry and/as Music
Week 6 (Mar 3): Lyrics
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Week 7 (Mar 17): Voice
Week 8 (Mar 24): History
Week 9 (Mar 31): Sound Poetry I
Week 10 (Apr 7): Sound Poetry II
Week 11: Presentations I
Week 12: Presentations II
Week 1 (Jan 27): Introduction
Audio:
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
Kurt Schwitters, “Ursonate” (read by Jaap Blonk).
Tongo Eisen-Martin, ““I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money.”
Susan Howe, “Frolic Architecture.”
Reading:
Texts of the poems above.
