Augustus Saint-Gaudens' memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th.
A detail from the memorial.
A larger image of the memorial, on Boston Common.
Photos from the 1967 March on Washington. Soldiers vs. protesters outside the Pentagon. A closeup.
Charles V by Titian (click inside page to expand for full-sized image). A journalists' introduction to the same painting.
Lowell at Harvard, with a link to a 1946 reading.
Lowell at the Academy. Audio for "Skunk Hour." (Other audio at Academy site.)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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.
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.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
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.)
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.)
Sunday, September 28, 2008
more William Carlos Williams, with audio
The Williams web exhibit at Case Western.
Many recordings of Williams reading his poems (web page menu from Penn).
Williams reading "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives" in 1945 (audio file).
Williams reading "To a Poor Old Woman" in 1942 (audio file).
Williams reading "The Term" in 1945 (audio file).
A word from Shakespeare (compare to "The Term").
The most often quoted sentences from Williams' introduction to The Wedge (1944).
There is something called pitch copper with electrical uses, but Williams is more likely thinking about copper roofing which uses copper sheets and bars.
Discussions (from Cary Nelson's site) of "Young Sycamore," and another version of the Stieglitz photograph that seems to have inspired the poem.
Many recordings of Williams reading his poems (web page menu from Penn).
Williams reading "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives" in 1945 (audio file).
Williams reading "To a Poor Old Woman" in 1942 (audio file).
Williams reading "The Term" in 1945 (audio file).
A word from Shakespeare (compare to "The Term").
The most often quoted sentences from Williams' introduction to The Wedge (1944).
There is something called pitch copper with electrical uses, but Williams is more likely thinking about copper roofing which uses copper sheets and bars.
Discussions (from Cary Nelson's site) of "Young Sycamore," and another version of the Stieglitz photograph that seems to have inspired the poem.
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