21L.325  Small Wonders

for class tomorrow

Thanks Ostin for creating this week's topic and sharing links, and Amelie for adding your Rossetti emphases. Please let us know if we need to print specific texts or whether you will provide. And Jae, chime in:)

looking forward to it,
DH

Announced on 30 November 2016  4:43  p.m. by Diana Henderson

A pertinent play...

Hi all,

Pertinent to our discussion of expressionism, 19th-c. forerunners of the absurd and more yesterday, I share a link for a performance up at Harvard this weekend of Strindberg's "Dream Play," as adapted by a friend (American and also director of the English National Opera) who has adapted it to this place and time--I suspect this will definitely fit the expressionist-meets-po-pomo bill...perhaps with a good deal of romanticism and politics to boot!

DREAM_PLAY_11x17.jpg

Announced on 11 November 2016  5:07  p.m. by Diana Henderson

For Thursday 13th class with Prof. Ruth Perry

I've included links Ruth provided to ballad collections on the Forum (Week Five)--there may be some glitches with getting the music to play if your machine is like mine, but I'm hoping you'll have better luck (certainly the EBBA one works, and is also included on our syllabus basics).
She also shares her forthcoming article giving basic context about ballads, which would be a good place to begin: I am posting it on our Materials page.
Enjoy:)

Announced on 06 October 2016  1:23  p.m. by Diana Henderson

For Thursday's class (Sept. 15): the amazing medievalist visits!

Those registered in my class are receiving this by email: if you are and are dropping, that's a reminder to do so; if you aren't and are viewing it on my stellar home page, it's a reminder to add!
I am listing here the links Prof. Bahr has sent me for you, which includes information about a medieval French song (major hit!) and Italian sestina as well as translations. He will bring recordings Thursday, and no expectation that you will have listened to multiple versions but if you would enjoy...Do look at the poems by Dante and Bishop, though, and notice the forms.

I will also make a document on Materials with these links, in case that is easier for you. & come to Lit Tea 4:15-5:15 if you want to touch base, or just meet good company!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douce_Dame_Jolie

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sestina-2/

http://essaysandendnotes.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-proper-sestina.html (which includes a nice discussion of Rosetti’s translation of Dante’s sestina, with embedded link to the original Italian for those who are interested)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47536

http://staff.washington.edu/rmcnamar/383/bishop.html

Announced on 11 September 2016  12:30  p.m. by Diana Henderson

Welcome, updated!

Some of you were in attendance day one, but some were
not--so,again, welcome to "Songs, Sonnets and Other
Popular Poems," this year's topic for 21L.325: Small
Wonders. We now have critical mass!

Because there are more wonders than we can possibly
explore during our semester together, I invite you to share
with me any preferences or hopes you have, and I will try to work
them into the course; see the current syllabus under Materials for a sense of possibilities.

Just a reminder: this is a six-unit subject, with one weekly
meeting and the expectation of 6 hours of attention per week,
running throughout the semester.

Next Thursday you will have the pleasure of guest instructor Arthur
Bahr sharing some medieval music by Machaut, and sestinas by
Dante and Elizabeth Bishop. I'm posting links to some of those poems
on the Materials page.

Enjoy!

Announced on 01 September 2016  10:04  a.m. by Diana Henderson