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Final Project:\u00a0<\/strong> Due via email by 3:30 PM on Wednesday, May 14.<\/p>\n

Week 12 (Apr 21):<\/strong>\u00a0 Presentations<\/p>\n

The main reading for the class is the poems of our six presenters, to be circulated by the weekend. We will also read Jeff Dolven’s (!) *A New English Grammar. You can find a musical setting of one of its poems, *He Was Dying,” by Majel Connery, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week 11 (Apr 14):\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Presentations<\/p>\n

The main reading for the class is the poems of our six presenters, to be circulated by the weekend. We will also read excerpts from Anne Carson’s Glass Irony and God<\/a>, the first part of the poem “Book of Isaiah” and her essay “The Gender of Sound.” Not required, but useful, a look at the Book of Isaiah itself, here in the King James Version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week 10 (Apr 7):\u00a0 <\/strong>Sound Poetry II<\/p>\n

We will be reading issue 98-99 of the journal OEI<\/a>, “Aural Poetics,” edited by Michael Nardone. Its contents are a mix of sound poems, criticism,\u00a0 and other, unplaceable materials. By the end of the day Friday<\/em>, you should choose one entry to sponsor for the class’s attention, and email me, so I can circulate a list to everyone. We will not be confined to that list for our discussion, but we will take it as our starting point, so as you prepare for class, give special emphasis to your classmates’ selections. The entry you choose will also be the basis of the week’s exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week 9 (March 31):\u00a0 <\/strong>Sound Poetry I<\/p>\n

Poems: a selection of sound poems made by Craig Dworkin which we will encounter together for the first time in class; now posted here after our discussion: Hugo Ball, “Karawane<\/a>” (as performed by Marie Osmond); Hugo Ball: “Seepferdchen und Fl\u00fcgfische<\/a>“;\u00a0Tracie Morris, “Slave Sho to Video<\/a>“; Christopher Knowles, “Emily Likes the TV<\/a>“;\u00a0Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, “Rap Popconcreto<\/a>“;\u00a0Norman Pritchard, “Gyre\u2019s Galax<\/a>“; Tristan Tzara, “Br\u00fcllt<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Criticism: Craig Dworkin, A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening<\/a>; Pauline Oliveros, Auralizing in the Sonosphere<\/a>; Yoko, Tawada, The Art of Being Nonsynchronous<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week 8 (March 24):<\/strong>\u00a0 History<\/p>\n

Poems: a selection of fourteen undated and unattributed Sonnets<\/a> (see the exercise<\/a> page for instructions on what to do with them).<\/p>\n

Criticism: E. Cook, “Diction<\/a>“; Lucy Munro,\u00a0Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674<\/a> (excerpt); Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood, Anachronic Renaissance<\/a> (excerpt); Michel Serres and Bruno Latour, Conversations<\/a> (excerpt).<\/p>\n

Week 7 (March 17):\u00a0 <\/strong>Voice<\/p>\n

For every poem here, there is a recording below. We’ll be thinking about the five voices we hear on the page and on tape; experiment with reading first, listening first, doing both together, etc.<\/p>\n

Poems: Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room<\/a>“; Tongo Eisen-Martin, “The Possibility of Being One Person<\/a>“; Cathy Park Hong, from Dance Dance Revolution<\/a>; Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke with You<\/a>“; and Wallace Stevens, “Large Red Man Reading<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Readings by the poets:<\/p>\n

Bishop:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/03\/Bishop-In-the-Waiting-Room.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

Eisen-Martin:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/03\/Eisen-Martin-The-Possibility-of-Being-One-Person.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

Hong:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/03\/Hong-Roles.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

O’Hara:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/03\/OHara-Having-a-Coke-with-You.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

Stevens:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/03\/Stevens-Large-Red-Man-Reading.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

Criticism: Roland Barthes, “The Grain of the Voice<\/a>“; Mladen Dolar, “The Linguistics of the Voice<\/a>“; E. Richards, “Voice<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Week 6 (March 3):<\/strong>\u00a0 Lyric and lyrics<\/p>\n

Poems (or rather, songs?): Three settings of the weird old song \u201cOh the Wind and the Rain,\u201d by Crooked Still<\/a>, Jerry Garcia & David Grisman<\/a>, and Nico Muhly<\/a>, along with Alfred Deller singing Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cHey Ho, the Wind and the Rain<\/a>.” Also listen to the songs submitted by your classmates and pay special attention to the moments they identify as of particular interest for a conversation between words and music.<\/p>\n

Criticism: E. B. Jorgens, Song<\/a>; Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons<\/a> (excerpt); Jahan Ramazani, “Poetry and Song<\/a>” (excerpt).<\/p>\n

Week 5 (Feb 24):\u00a0 <\/strong>Poetry and\/as Music<\/p>\n

Poems: John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale<\/a>“; Shigeru Matsui, “Pure Poems<\/a>“; John Milton, “At a Solemn Music<\/a>“; Tracy K. Smith, “Wade in the Water<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Audio: Diana Deutsch’s Speech-to-Song Illusion<\/a> (read her description and listen to her demos in order); Jason Moran, “Ringing My Phone<\/a>” (complete version on YouTube<\/a> and Spotify<\/a>, if you can’t get enough); Steve Reich, Different Trains on YouTube<\/a> and Spotify<\/a>; Kate Soper, “Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say<\/a>.” You can read about Different Trains here<\/a>. Listening to a few minutes at the start will give you a sense of what he is up to. Listen with care; it is very beautiful and very sad, especially at the end.<\/p>\n

Criticism: Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, from Alien Listening<\/a>; John Hollander, from “The Music of Poetry<\/a>“; George List, “The Boundaries of Speech and Song<\/a>“; Arthur Schopenhauer, from The World as Will and Representation (excerpt)<\/a>. List in particular is technical and hard going, but it is worth persevering, as it makes a map on which to place forms of talking and singing. Schopenhauer gives a classic and abidingly influential account of what music is.<\/p>\n

Week 4 (Feb 17):\u00a0 <\/strong>Rhyme<\/p>\n

Poems: Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man<\/a>“; John Keats, “Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci<\/a>“; Emily Dickinson, “The Soul Selects Her Own Society<\/a>“; Edward Lear, “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat<\/a>“; Terrence Hayes, “Inside Me Is a Black-Eyed Animal<\/a>“; and Paul Muldoon, “The Mud Room<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Criticism: Susan Stewart, “Rhyme and Freedom<\/a>“; Simon Jarvis, “Why Rhyme Pleases<\/a>“; Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, “Rhyme<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Week 3 (Feb 10):\u00a0 <\/strong>Words (Phonetics and Semantics)<\/p>\n

Poems: Christian B\u00f6k, Eunoia<\/a> (excerpt); Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary<\/a> (excerpt); Jordan Scott, Blert<\/a> (excerpt); Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Princess<\/a>” (excerpt). We will give special emphasis to Wallace Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Criticism: William McGregor, Phonetics<\/a>; Plato, Cratylus<\/a> (excerpt); Margaret Magnus, A History of Sound Symbolism<\/a> (excerpt); International Phonetics Association, Handbook<\/a> (excerpt) and IPA Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week 2 (Feb 3):<\/strong>\u00a0 Meter and Rhythm<\/p>\n

Tetrameter poems<\/a> by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Keats, and Emily Dickinson; pentameter poems<\/a> by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Alexander Pope, and John Keats.<\/p>\n

John Hollander, Rhyme’s Reason<\/a>, pp. 1-30.
\nDerek Attridge, The Rhythms of English Poetry<\/a>, pp. 76-82, 123-129.
\nHenry Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis<\/a>, pp. 5-10, 15-18, 27-30.<\/p>\n

Week 1 (Jan 27):<\/strong>\u00a0 Introduction<\/p>\n

Audio:<\/p>\n

Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/01\/1-Tennyson-The-Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade-audio.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

Kurt Schwitters, “Ursonate” (read by Jaap Blonk).<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/01\/2-Schwitters-Ursonate-Blonk-1999-opening.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

Tongo Eisen-Martin, “\u201cI Do Not Know the Spelling of Money.\u201d<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/01\/3-Eisen-Martin-I-Do-Not-Know-the-Spelling-of-Money.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

Susan Howe, \u201cFrolic Architecture.\u201d<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/eng266-s25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/433\/2025\/01\/4-Howe-Frolic-Architecture-audio-excerpt.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Texts<\/a> of the poems above.<\/p>\n

Week 11:\u00a0 <\/strong>Presentations I<\/p>\n

Week 12:\u00a0 <\/strong>Presentations II<\/p>\n

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