Intro to Literature Final

First to have poetry published in the new world was Anne Bradstreet

During the modern era, most churches in England became apostate. 5% of the population regularly attended church

Wrote stories and novels with nautical settings that depict trials of the human spirit

“And he was rich yes richer than a king/ and admirably schooled in every grace:”

From New Zealand, Master of modern short story

Known for humorous yet insightful poetry

Irish avant-garde writer who used stream of consciousness

Favors a variety of viewpoints, assumes that no single one is universally valid

Psychology

I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide / or press an ear against its hive.

Spring and All(Williams) But now the stark dignity of entrance Still, the profound change/has come upon them:

Stressed correctness and politeness

Has been compared to Emily Dickinson

The Lagoon(Conrad): There is half a man in you now—the other half is in that woman. I can wait.

Poems focus on lowly, familiar subjects; “no ideas but in things”

American writer known for mystery and Gothic tales, such as “The Lottery”

So she vanquished them horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years about the smell.

First to use free verse

Was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City

Poem about work

Shakespeare was the greatest writer

I will arise and go now, for always night and day / I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

Only major literary voice to speak in support of Christianity

Joseph Conrad

Literary Characteristics

“Richard Cory” is a poem by Robertson about a man who seemed to have his life together

Thought

Birches(Frost): Earth’s the right place for love: / I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, / As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

Was Polish

There lay a young man, fast asleep—sleeping so soundly, so deeply, that he was far, far away from them both.

Regarded as the Irish National Poet

Politics

William Faulkner created a fictional world with Yoknapatawpha County as its center

Killed one week before the end of WW1

“A Rose for Emily”

Received the Nobel Prize for literature

Developed the “sound of sense”

As you think it, you write it

I have measured my life out with coffee spoons.

Two distortions of the biblical view of man: man is an animal, man is a god

Best poems are short sketches about painfully isolated people

Poetry known for experimentation in capitalization and punctuation

Edwin Arlington Robertson made up:

Was a lifelong baseball fan. Admired the grace of both baseball players and animals