Companion Website for your Anthology
http://www.ablongman.com/barnet
Literature for Composition's Companion Website offers various resources, including (optional) exercises and writing checklists.
On Matthew Arnold's
"Dover Beach"
Here you'll find not only Arnold's revision of the first 28 lines of the poem, but also an analysis of the poem that incorporates a number of critical theories. (The first seven paragraphs specifically reflect a New Criticism approach).
Novelist Richard Price
on personal experience in literature
Host Terry Gross interviews novelist Richard Price on NPR's program "Fresh Air". Price is the author of the best-selling novels Clockers, about life in the inner-city world of drug dealing, and Freedomland. Price's new book Samaritan is about a man who returns as a teacher to the New Jersey town where he was raised, and the bad consequences of his good intentions. Price also is a screenwriter of such films as Sea of Love, Ransom and The Color of Money.
Images of Leda and the Swan
"Leda and the Swan"
What is notable about this collection of images inspired by the myth of Leda and the Swan?
Thomas Cooper Library Tutorial
http://www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/tutorial
In preparation for your library research, try out this tutorial! Feel free to print out pages that you'd like to keep on hand for reference. When you finish, please complete the evaluation on the final page in order to receive homework credit.
Sylvia Plath
Biography
For critical commentary on "Daddy" see these numerous short pieces by various authors on the autobiographical nature of the poem. *(Note: If you print this out, you may want to select certain pages to print; it is one whole document--39 pp total). Click here for additional biographical background, forums, and more.
Woodie Guthrie
"This Land is Your Land"
July 3 -- Woody Guthrie was originally from Oklahoma, but he loved traveling: he walked, hitch-hiked, and rode the rails all around the country. He was also a prolific writer, and scribbled the words to "This Land Is Your Land" down on a loose-leaf sheet of paper in 1940. Guthrie recorded the song for Mo Asch, founder of Folkways Records, in New York City in 1944, but the song wasn't released until 1951. By that time, "This Land Is Your Land" had become something of a leftist national anthem, sung at rallies, political events, and in schools. Folklorist Nick Spitzer pays tribute to Guthrie and his quintessentially American song.
*(Also, see angam.ang.univie/ac/at/roadcult/guthrie/Land.htmfor textual commentary and lyrics).
FYI: Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997
Any one of Allen Ginsberg's works would be a great subject for biographical/historical criticism--"Hum Bom", for example. Check out some background/biography on the poet at: http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ginsberg/bio.htm For more interesting tidbits about Ginsberg's FBI file history: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ginsberg-fbi.html
French Colonialism in Martinique and Viet Nam
Poets Against the War
Poets Against the War emerged in January 2003 in response
to Laura Bush's invitation to "Poetry and the American Voice." (After receiving poetry that opposed war on Iraq the First Lady cancelled the event)."
"Barbie Liberation Organization
Barbie can talk tough, too!