English 1001

							                    English 1001: List of Assigned Poems / Poets
             (Titles in bold face assigned for possible discussion in class)

Anon.
        “Lord Rendall”
        “Sir Patrick Spens”
        “Barbara Allan”

Sir Thomas Wyatt
       “Who so liste to hounte”
       “They fle from me that sometime did me seke”

Christopher Marlowe
       “The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love”

Sir Walter Ralegh
       “The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard”

Lady Mary Wroth
      “Love a child is ever criing”

William Shakespeare
       Sonnet 18 – “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?”
       Sonnet 29 – “When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes”
       Sonnet 73 – “That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold”
       Sonnet 116 – “Let me not to the marriage of true mindes”
       Sonnet 129 – “Th’expence of Spirit in a waste of shame”
       Sonnet 130 – “My Mistres eyes are nothing like the Sunne”

Thomas Campion
     “My Sweetest Lesbia”

John Donne
      “The Sunne Rising”
      “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
      Holy Sonnet XIV – “Batter my heart, three person’d God”

Ben Jonson
       “On my first Sonne”
       “Song. To Celia”

Anne Bradstreet
      “Before the Birth of One of Her Children”

Andrew Marvell
      “To His Coy Mistress”
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Aphra Behn
      “The Disappointment”

William Blake
       “London”
       “The Tyger”
       “The Sick Rose”

William Wordsworth
       “Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey”
       “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
       Sonnet XXII – “When our two souls stand up erect and strong”
       Sonnet XLIII – “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Robert Browning
       “My Last Duchess”

Walt Whitman
      From “Song to Myself”

Gerard Manley Hopkins
       “Spring and Fall”

W.B. Yeats
      “The Host of the Air” (provided as a handout)
      “Easter 1916”
      “The Second Coming”
      “Leda and the Swan”

Ezra Pound
       “In a Station of the Metro”

Siegfried Sassoon
        “A Night Attack”
        “Base Details”

Hilda Doolittle
       “Leda”
       “Helen”

T.S. Eliot
        “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
        “Preludes”
        “The Journey of the Magi”
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Wilfred Owen
       “Dulce et Decorum Est”

E.E. Cummings
       “anyone lived in a pretty how town”

Stevie Smith
       “Not Waving But Drowning”

Elizabeth Bishop
       “The Fish”

Henry Reed
      “Naming of Parts”
      “Judging Distances”

William Stafford
       “Traveling through the Dark”

Dylan Thomas
       “Fern Hill”

P.K. Page
       “The Stenographers”

Anne Sexton
      “Her Kind”

Adrienne Rich
      “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
      “Final Notations”

Ted Hughes
      “Hawk Roosting”

Sylvia Plath
       “The Colossus”
       “Daddy”

Alden Nowlan
      “I, Icarus”
      “Warren Prior”
      “The Bull Moose”
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Margaret Atwood
      “Progressive Insanities of the Pioneer”
      “Tricks with Mirrors”
      “IS / Not”

Gwendolyn MacEwan
     “The Child Dancing”
     “Letter to a Future Generation”

Michael Ondaatje
      “Dates”
      “Letters & Other Worlds”

Patricia Young
        “Three Point Five Nine”
        “Photograph, 1958”