randall jarrell

Some images: RJ in hammock with cat, at his desk, writing, and behind the wheel of a late-1950s sports car.

An entire hour of RJ reading his own poems, with links to individual poems, all from The Lost World.

The Bronze David of Donatello.

Suzanne Ferguson's timeline of RJ's life.

RJ's page at the Academy, and his page at the Univ. of Illinois Modern American Poetry site.

RJ's papers in Greensboro, with a brief bio-- but most of the papers are instead at the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library.

RJ reading aloud "Ball Turret Gunner" and "Eighth Air Force."

Richard Flynn on Jarrell and the 1930s.

On Mary von S. Jarrell's memoir of her husband.

Jarrell's never-completed essay, from 1949-50, about the Bollingen Prize and Ezra Pound.

lorine niedecker

The Friends of Lorine Niedecker.

The tiny town where she spent most of her life.

A Wisconsin museum exhibit with virtual tour and biographical essay.

Her cabin on Blackhawk Island.

Her last house, where she lived with Al Millen in the 1960s.

Some critical writings, including essays by the Niedecker scholar and editor Jenny Penberthy.

Asa Gray and grasses.

more langston hughes

The authoritative Schomburg Institute Harlem Renaissance site.

If Beale Street could talk.

Winold Reiss' "Harlem at Night" (1924).

Aaron Douglas' "Aspects of Negro Life" (1934) (nightlife).

From Pittsburg State University, an elegant Harlem Renaissance guide.

langston hughes

Howard University's big Hughes site, with images of the poet (including the postage stamp).

Hughes' life, briefly, from the Academy of American Poets.

Somewhat recent academic writings on Hughes: none of these online resource lists come anywhere close to working as an acceptable substitute for an MLA bibliography search.

Recorded music.

first stevens lecture, first paper, the number five

If you're using a Harvard server you should be able to download the first paper assignment here, though it's exacty the same thing you received in lecture. (I'll try to put subsequent assignments up on the course blog too, though I will also hand them out in lecture, just as in lower-tech times.)

The children's video based on Charles Demuth's painting based on Williams' poem.

Web resources and major reference works about Stevens.

The Academy's Stevens site.

Stevens in Hartford. A bit more on Hartford. Stevens' favorite Hartford park.

Stevens in South Florida.

A somewhat idiosyncratic Stevens site, assembled by the Stevens scholar and avant-garde critic Alan Filreis.

Downloadable readers' guides to individual Stevens poems, from the critic and novelist Ronald Sukenick (do not rely on these readings alone).

Stevens at Harvard, with recordings of Stevens reading his poems here in 1954.

Stevens' 1954 Collected Poems online. (Does not include posthumously published poems, prose, etc.)