| Oct 4 | Kathryn Eagleson
resp: Katrina Schurter | Boehrer, Bruce. “‘Lycidas’: The Pastoral Elegy as Same-Sex Epithalamium.” PMLA 117.2 (2002): 222-36. online access |
| Oct 7 | Sarah Langford
resp: Christina Sabatino | Shaw, W. David. “Elegy and Theory: Is Historical and Critical Knowledge Possible?” Modern Language Quarterly 55.1 (1994): 1-16. online access |
| Oct 18 | Marsena Henderson
resp: Laura Couperthwaite | Smith, Eric. “Shelley — Adonais.” By Mourning Tongues: Studies in English Elegy. 1977. 55-78. <on reserve in library> |
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| Oct 25 | Rebecca Croxall
resp: Dana Wilson | Smith, Eric. “Tennyson — In Memoriam.” By Mourning Tongues: Studies in English Elegy. 1977. 100-34. <on reserve in library> |
| Oct 28 | Katrina Schurter
resp: Katelyn Coughlin | Kennedy, Ian H. C. “In Memoriam and the Tradition of Pastoral Elegy.” Victorian Poetry 15.4 (1977): 351-66. online access |
| Nov 1 | Kaitlin Cameron
resp: Karli Marshall | McSweeney, Kerry. “Hardy’s Poems of 1912-13: A Presence More than the Actual.” Victorian Poetry 33.2 (1995): 191-220. online access |
| Nov 4 | Alanna Cracknell
resp: Jennifer Morrison | Ramazani, Jahan. “Hardy and the Poetics of Melancholia: Poems of 1912-13 and Other Elegies for Emma.” ELH 58.4 (1991): 957-77. online access |
| Nov 8 | Kerry Counahan
resp: Kathryn Eagleson | Zeiger, Melissa. “‘A Muse Funereal’: The Critique of Elegy in Swinburne’s ‘Ave Atque Vale.’” Victorian Poetry 24.2 (1986): 173-88. online access |
| Nov 11 | Melissa Dietrich
resp: Rebecca Croxall | McDiarmid, Lucy S. “Poetry’s Landscape in Auden’s Elegy for Yeats.” Modern Language Quarterly 38.2 (1977): 167-77. online access |
| Nov 15 | Laura Couperthwaite
resp: Jenna Parent | Brady, Andrea. “The Rhetoric of Grief.” English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century. 2006. 32-61. <on reserve in library> |
| Nov 18 | Katelyn Coughlin
resp: Alanna Cracknell | Edmundson, Mark. “‘Lilacs’: Walt Whitman’s American Elegy.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 44.4 (1990): 465-91. online access |
| Nov 22 | Jennifer Morrison
resp: Kerry Counahan | Cross, J. E. “On the Genre of The Wanderer.” Neophilologus 45.1 (1961): 63-75. online access |
| Nov 25 | Dana Wilson
resp: Melissa Dietrich | Vickery, John B. “Bridges and Housman as Elegists: The Modern Threshold.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 48.4 (2005): 404-19. online access |
| Nov 29 | Christina Sabatino
resp:Sarah Langford | Ramazani, Jahan. “Introduction.” Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney. 1994. 1-31. <on reserve in library> |
| Dec 2 | Karli Marshall
resp: Marsena Henderson | Schenck, Celeste M. “Feminism and Deconstruction: Re-Constructing the Elegy.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 5.1 (1986): 13-27. online access |
| Dec 6 | Jenna Parent
resp: Kaitlin Cameron | Ramazani, Jahan. “W. H. Auden: Elegy and Imitation.” Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney. 1994. 176-204. <on reserve in library> |
| Dec 9 | --- | |
| Sep 13 | Introduction | |
| Sep 16 | Theocritus, first idyll
Bion, “Lament for Adonis” | |
| Sep 20 | Moschus, “Lament for Bion”
Virgil, eclogue V and X | |
| Sep 23 | Spenser, “November” | |
| Sep 27 | Spenser, “Astrophel” | leader: Sarah Langford |
| Sep 30 | Class cancelled | |
| Oct 4 | Milton, “Lycidas” | leader: Karli Marshall |
| Oct 7 | Behn, “On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester”
Pope, “Winter: The Fourth Pastoral; or, Daphne” | leader: Alanna Cracknell |
| Oct 18 | Shelley, “Adonais” | leader: Rebecca Croxall |
| Oct 21 | Arnold, “The Scholar-Gipsy”
Arnold, “Thrysis” | leader: Katelyn Coughlin
leader: Kaitlin Cameron |
| Oct 25 | Tennyson, In Memoriam | leader: Kerry Counahan |
| Oct 28 | Tennyson, In Memoriam | leader: Jennifer Morrison |
| Nov 1 | Hardy, Poem of 1912-13 | |
| Nov 4 | Hardy, Poem of 1912-13 | leader: Christina Sabatino |
| Nov 8 | Swinburne, “Ave atque vale”
Swinburne, “A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning” | leader: Melissa Dietrich |
| Nov 11 | Auden, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
Heaney, “Casualty” |
leader: Marsena Henderson |
| Nov 15 | Philips, “The Third Pastoral”
Philips, “The Fourth Pastoral”
Gay, “Friday; or, The Dirge” | leader: Dana Wilson |
| Nov 18 | Whitman, “O Captain My Captain”
Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” | |
| Nov 22 | “The Wanderer”
“The Seafarer”
“Deor” | leader: Katrina Schurter |
| Nov 25 | Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young”
Housman, “Is my team ploughing?”
Housman, “Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?” | leader: Laura Couperthwaite |
| Nov 29 | Lawrence, “Elegy”
Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”
Thomas, “Elegy” | |
| Dec 2 | Williams, “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”
Williams, “An Elegy for D. H. Lawrence”
Clampitt, “A Procession at Candlemas” | |
| Dec 6 | Auden, Song IX from “Twelve Songs”
Auden, “In Memory of Sigmund Freud”
Hill, “September Song” | |
| Dec 9 | Walker, “For Malcolm X”
Jordan, “In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Salter, “John Lennon” | leader: Jenna Parent
leader: Kathryn Eagleson
term essay due |