Poetry for Pleasure in the Spring, with Barry Wallenstein

Poetry for Pleasure in the Spring, with Barry Wallenstein
April 2, 2024 @ 1:00-2:15pm

These lectures with discussion will involve close readings of poems – classic, modern, and contemporary. Our aim is to listen to the sound poems make. What makes a successful language performance? We will discuss these works’ emotional truth, unity of expression, and attention-holding, pleasure-providing use of language. Barry is the author of 12 collections of poetry, most recently It’s About Time, as well as Time on the Move and Tony’s Blues (bilingual French and English).
In our class for April 2, we’ll discuss the following poems:

• The Opposite House by Robert Lowell – p. 33
• Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare – p. 8
• Spring Song by Dorothy Parker – p. 14
• The Rumm Tumm Tugger is a Curious Cat by T.S. Eliot – p. 18-19
• To An Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Housman – p. 20
• Song in the Manner of Housman by Ezra Pound – p.21
• The Pylons by Stephen Spender – p. 29

Here is the poetry book for the semester:

CLICK HERE