READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15-21, 2008

Don't forget that your first round of blogging for the week of September 8-14 will need to be posted by midnight on Sunday, September 14!!

In terms of reading assignments, once you get your Norton anthology, please read the introduction, as it gives a very big-picture overview of some of the same groupings we'll be studying during the course of the semester.

Here are some links to get you started on Sylvia Plath:

Sylvia Plath at the Academy of American Poets Website

Sylvia Plath at the Modern American Poetry Website

Sylvia Plath at the Poetry Foundation Website

Clips of Sylvia Plath Reading on YouTube

For Monday, September 15, please read all of the selections on Sylvia Plath in the Norton anthology:
"The Disquieting Muses"
"Metaphors"
"The Colossus"
"Morning Song"
"In Plaster"
"Tulips"
"Blackberrying"
"Elm"
"The Arrival of the Bee Box"
"The Applicant"
"Daddy"
"Fever 103"
"Cut"
"Poppies in October"
"Ariel"
"Lady Lazarus"
"Edge"

For Wednesday, September 17, please read the following critical articles on Sylvia Plath:

Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry: A Reconsideration, by M.D. Uroff from Iowa Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1977, pp. 104-15.

The Self in the World: The Social Context of Sylvia Plath's Late Poems, by Pamela J. Annas, from Women's Studies, Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2, 1980, pp. 171-83.

By Friday, September 19, we'll be taking a look at Anne Sexton. Here are some links to get you started on Sexton:

Anne Sexton at the Poetry Foundation Website

Anne Sexton at the Modern American Poetry Website

Anne Sexton at the Academy of American Poets Website

Rare Film Clips of Anne Sexton on YouTube

And then, for Friday, September 19, please read all of the selections by Anne Sexton in your Norton anthology:
"Her Kind"
"The Truth the Dead Know"
"All My Pretty Ones"
"The Starry Night"
"The Death of the Fathers"
2. How We Danced
"The Death Baby"
1. Dreams
"The Room of My Life"