Ira Sadoff

isadoff@colby.edu
Dana Professor of Poetry
Colby College
Department of English
Waterville, Maine 04901



Syllabus



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Eliot, "Tradition and Individual Talent"
Eliot, "BURNT NORTON"
Eliot, "EAST COKER"
Eliot, "LITTLE GIDDING"
Eliot, "THE DRY SALVAGES"

Gelpi,"Geneology of the Postmodern"
Hejinian postmodern
Hughes Poems
Jazz Lyrics
Loy poems
Nardi Poems
New criticism
Nicholson
Pound Poems
Stein and Picasso
Stevens, Pressures of Contemporaneous
Stevens "On Imagination"


Stein from "OBJECTS"
The Wasteland Notes
William Carlos Willams excerpts from letters
William Carlos Williams_pms
Williams, Prologue to KORA

Stevens Poems
Understanding Poetry


POETRY WEB LINKS


Frost, "The Figure a poem Makes"
Frost poems: http://www.dpiltd.co.uk/home/catalyst/RF/poem1.html
http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/frost.html

Pound,: "A Retrospect,"

Eliot, FOUR QUARTETS
Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Eliot Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=18
Wasteland site http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/table/explore5.html
Wasteland scholarship http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/eliot.htm
Eliot poem websites http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/eliot.html
Other Eliot Websites:
http://www.deathclock.com/thunder/
Main Eliot website http://www.deathclock.com/thunder/works.html
http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com
http:/home.c2i.net/monsalvat/logres.htm /

Williams Academy American Poetshttp://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=120
Williams links and resources http://web.edcc.edu/gvb/wcw.html
Stevens poems http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-poems.html

Hughes, "The Negro and the Racial Mountain"
Hughes poems


Mina Loy

Marianne Moore

Stein "COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION"
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no8/stein.html
Stein poems http://www.bartleby.com/140/index.html

Stevens on Imagination

Williams Academy American Poetshttp://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=120
Williams links and resources http://web.edcc.edu/gvb/wcw.html

H.D. poems: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/hd.htm
and http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/additional.htm

Modern and contemporary Poetry page:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm#PoetPages

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