American Literature

Week 22: Beginnings of Modern Poetry

Please READ:

• Richard Wright, 482-487
• Eudora Welty, 488-494, 554-556
• “Reading Modern Poetry”
• Amy Lowell, 496, 499-502
• Carl Sandburg, 496, 503
• Marianne Moore, 497, 504
• William Carlos Williams, 497, 505
• Archibald Macleish, 497, 505-7
• “American English” 508.
• Robert Frost, 509-15
• Please select an American work of fiction by an author that interests you and begin to read it. (You should also get my approval for the title.) You will be asked to give a class presentation on the work in about three to five weeks.