MAIN COURSE RESOURCES
Pinsky, Robert. Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
The Favorite Poem Project. favoritepoem.org.
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Pinsky, Robert and Maggie Dietz, eds. Americans' Favorite Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.
Pinsky, Robert and Maggie Dietz, eds. An Invitation to Poetry. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
RECOMMENDED ONLINE RESOURCES
The Poetry Foundation. poetryfoundation.org.
The Academy of American Poets. poets.org.
POEMS
Anonymous, “The Old Cloak”*
Elizabeth Bishop, “Arrival at Santos”
Elizabeth Bishop, “At the Fishhouses”+
Michelangelo Buonarroti, tr. by Gail Mazur, “Michelangelo: To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel”*
Thomas Campion, “Now Winter Nights Enlarge”*
Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
Hart Crane, “At Melville’s Tomb”+
Countee Cullen, “Yet I Do Marvel”+
J.V. Cunningham, from “Doctor Drink #1”
Samuel Daniel, “Read in my face, a volume of despairs!”
John Davies, “The hardness of her heart and truth of mine”
Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death - ”
Michael Drayton, “Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee:”
Pham Tien Duat, tr. by Ngo Vinh Hai and Kevin Bowen, “To Return to the Urges Unconscious of Their Beginnings”
Alan Dugan, “How We Heard the Name”*
Alan Dugan, “Love Song, I and Thou”
T.S. Eliot, “East Coker”
David Ferry, Tablet 1 of Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Louise Glück, “Nostos”
Fulke Greville, “You That Seek What in Life Is Death”*
H.D., “The Pool”
H.D., “Sea Rose”*
Mark Halliday, ”The Students”
Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”
Lyn Hejinian, “Familiarization is Not Good”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”*
Langston Hughes, “Minstrel Man”+
Ben Jonson, “His Excuse for Loving”*
John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer”
Kenneth Koch, “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams”*
Yusef Komunyakaa, “2527th Birthday of the Buddha”
Louise Labé, tr. by Laura Marris, “Sonnet 18”
Philip Larkin, “Broadcast”
Robert Lowell, “The Old Flame”
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Andrew Marvell, “The Mower to the Glow-Worms”
Jill McDonough, “Husky Boys’ Dickies”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear”
Czeslaw Milosz, “Incantation”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Lover: A Ballad”
Marianne Moore, “Silence“*
Marianne Moore, “The Steeple-Jack”
Jacob Nibenegenasábe, tr. by Howard Norman, “Quiet Until the Thaw”
Frank O’Hara, “Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed!)”*
Frank O’Hara, “Why I Am Not a Painter”*
Elise Partridge, “Chemo Side Effects: Memory”*
Sara Peters, “Abortion”
Katie Peterson, “Enough”
Sylvia Plath, “Nick and the Candlestick”+*
Alexander Pope, “Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation”
Sir Walter Raleigh, “On the Cards and Dice”
Henry Reed, “Chard Whitlow”
Pierre Reverdy, tr. by Lydia Davis, “At the Edge of Time”
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Eros Turannos”*
William Shakespeare, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
William Shakespeare, “Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame”
Philip Sidney, “Oh grammar rules, oh now your virtues show”
Stevie Smith, “Thoughts about the Person from Porlock”*
A. E. Stallings, “Fishing”
George Starbuck, “Daddy Gander’s New Found Runes” from “Translations from the English”
May Swenson, “Question”*
William Carlos Williams, “By the Road to the Contagious Hospital”
William Carlos Williams, “Sonnet in Search of an Author”
William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say”
William Carlos Williams, “To Waken an Old Lady”
William Butler Yeats, “The Fascination of What's Difficult”
William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”
Zawgee, tr. by Lyn Aye, “The Way of the Water Hyacinth”
* Poem appears in Singing School
+ Poem appears with text and video online as part of The Favorite Poem Project