Peter Miller Orals List POETRY & POETICS 2 poets before 1600 Chaucer Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, Miller s Tale, Wife of Bath s Tale, Pardoner s Tale Elegy: Book of the Duchess Dream Visions: Parliament of Fowls, House of Fame Lyrics and Occasional Verse: Truth, To His Scribe Adam, Complaint to His Purse Spenser Pastoral: The Shepheardes Calender (January through April) Sonnets: Amoretti Nos. 22 [ This holy season fit to fast and pray ], 23 [ Penelope for her Ulisses sake ], 30 [ My love is lyke to ice, and I to fire ], 81 [ One day I wrote her name upon the strand ] Lyric Poetry: Epithalamion Epic: The Faerie Queene, Books I (Holiness) and III (Chastity) Prose: Letter to Raleigh, A View on the Present State of Ireland 2 between 1600 and 1800 Donne Love Poetry: A Valediction Forbidding Morning, The Flea, Song [ Go and catch a falling star ], The Sun Rising Satire: Satire 1 Elegy: Elegy 8: To His Mistress Going to Bed Religious Poetry: Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, Holy Sonnet 10 [ Batter my heart ] Essay: Biathanatos (treatise on suicide) Sermon: Death s Duell Wordsworth Poems: Expostulation and Reply, The Tables Turned, We Are Seven, Strange fits of passion I have known, Goody Blake and Harry Gill, The Thorn, Michael, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Elegiac Stanzas Sonnets: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, London, 1802: Milton! thou should st be living at this hour Epic: The Prelude (1799, 1805, 1850) Prose: Advertisement to 1798 Lyrical Ballads, Preface to 1800 LB
2 between 1800 and 1900 Poe Poems: The Raven, The Bells, Ulalume A Ballad, Annabel Lee Tales: Hop-Frog, The Cask of Amontillado, Ligeia, The Tell-Tale Heart Essays: The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, The Rationale of Verse Other: Eureka: A Prose Poem, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Dickinson Poems: Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine (1), One sister have I in the house (5), Lethe in my flower (54), I taste a liquor never brewed (207), Some keep the Sabbath going to church (236), I m nobody! Who are you (260), Wild nights Wild nights (269), Going to him! Happy letter (277), Hope is the thing with feathers (314), One need not be a chamber to be haunted (407), I died for beauty but was scarce (448), I dwell in possibility (466), Because I could not stop for death (479), The brain within its groove (563), The brain is wider than the sky (598), It s easy to invent a life (747), My life had stood a loaded gun (764), There is no frigate like a book (1286) Letters: To Austin Dickinson (17 October 1851), The Master Letters (1858-1862), To T. W. Higginson (15 April 1862), To T. W. Higginson (January 1866) 2 since 1900 Pound* Poems: The Return, A Pact, In a Station of the Metro, Lament of the Frontier Guard, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Epic: A Draft of XVI Cantos, The Pisan Cantos Essays: I Gather the Limbs of Osiris, A Retrospect, Dissertation on Rhythm Opera: Le Testament de Villon Heaney* Poems: Digging, Scaffolding, Bogland, The Tollund Man, Punishment, A Kite for Michael and Christopher, Station Island, Alphabets, Terminus, The Strand, District and Circle, A Kite for Aibhiín Sonnets: The Forge, Clearances Elegy: The Strand at Lough Beg, Casualty Epic: Beowulf (trans.) Essays: Feeling into Words, Crediting Poetry (Nobel Prize speech)
Elegy -John Milton, Lycidas (1637) -Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) -W. B. Yeats, Easter, 1916 * (1921) -Agha Shahid Ali, Lenox Hill (2002) Ode -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode (1802) -John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) -Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1923) Ballad -Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) -Louise Bennett, No Lickle Twang * (1949) Epic -Homer, The Odyssey, Fitzgerald translation -John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) -William Wordsworth, The Prelude**, (1799, 1805, 1850) -Ezra Pound, The Cantos** (19--) -Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990) Dramatic Monologue -Robert Browning, My Last Duchess (1842) -T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock * (1915) -Okot p Bitek, Song of Lawino (1966) Epigram -John Dryden, Epigram on Milton (1688) -Robert Frost, Fire and Ice (1920) Sonnet -Francis Petrarch, It was the morning of that blessed day -William Shakespeare, Sonnet #73, That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold (1609) -Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias (1818) -Gerard Manley Hopkins, God s Grandeur (1877) Epistle -Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband (1650) -Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard (1717) -William Carlos Williams, This is Just to Say (1934) Loco-Descriptive -Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1855) -A. R. Ammons, Corsons Inlet (1990) Verse Drama -William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611) Concrete/Visual Poetry
-George Herbert, The Altar (1633) -William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) Primary Texts to 1945 (Pick 15) Aristotle, The Poetics Parts I-IX John Milton, Preface to Paradise Lost Alexander Pope, Peri Bathous William Wordsworth, 1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria chapters 13, 14, 17, 22 John Stuart Mill, What is Poetry? Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, The Rationale of Verse Charles Baudelaire, Further Notes on Edgar Poe, The Painter of Modern Life Stéphane Mallarmé, The Book. A Spiritual Instrument, Crisis in Poetry, Music and Literature Walter Pater, The School of Giorgione, Conclusion to The Renaissance Roman Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics Ezra Pound, I Gather the Limbs of Osiris, A Retrospect, from How to Read T. S. Eliot, Hamlet and his Problems, Tradition and the Individual Talent, The Metaphysical Poets Gertrude Stein, Poetry and Grammar Theodor Adorno, Lyric Poetry and Society Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Primary Texts Post 1945 (pick 5) Louise Bennett, Jamaica Language Allen Ginsberg, Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl Kamau Brathwaite, History of the Voice Ron Silliman, The New Sentence Charles Bernstein, Pounding Fascism from A Poetics Required Entries from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics Poetics (Western), Poem, Poet, Poetry, Classical Poetics, Medieval Poetics, Renaissance Poetics, Neoclassical Poetics, Preromanticism, Romantic and Postromantic Poetry and Poetics, Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonial Poetics, Avant-Garde Poetics Four Elective Entries from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics Lyric Music and Poetry Prosody Metaphor Secondary Texts (pick 5) Hošek and Parker (eds.), Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism (Chapters by Frye, Culler, Tucker) Derek Attridge The Rhythms of English Poetry Virginia Jackson, Dickinson s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading Jahan Ramazani, Poetry and Its Others
Jonathan Culler, Theory of the Lyric