For Tuesday, along with the assignments on the syllabus, read these snippets from my book Beneath the American Renaissance about some of our Poe tales, followed by brief examples of poetic techniques he uses in “The Raven.” -DSR
If you want to read the “clean” version of my Whitman/journalism piece, here it is. (Then youc could quickly glance at the marginal notes in the other version.)
This is an article I wrote on the journalistic foreground of Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Marginal notations are included to point out my stylistic techniques. Read this for our March 19 class.
Whitman carried this letter from Emerson around in his pocket, had it published in a newspaper, and quoted from it on the spine of the second edition of his poetry volume “Leaves of Grass.” When you read the letter, you’ll see why Whitman was so delighted with it!
My review of a book on anti-semitism in American iterature and society; it appears in the current issue of the New York Review of Books (2-22-24). If you’re interested, take a look!
Here’s the revised syllabus, with Edwards’ “Personal Narrative” (c. 1740) added to Feb. 6’s reading, and the schedule for book reviews, including three classes in which We’ll discuss examples reviews I’ve written, now uploaded on the Commons.
This speech reveals the Transcendentalists’ hatred of the proslavery legislation of the the 1850s, especially the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Jansas Nebraska Act of 1854.