Topic Name Description
Page EH 366 Syllabus
Topic 1 Page Odyssey Link
Page Shanidar Cave links
Page Temples and religious sites
Page Hermes Psychopompus and Hermetic Mysteries
Page Hades Vase
Topic 2 Page Aeneid Link
Page The Literature of Exhaustion- A Primordial Essay
Page framing D. H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places
Topic 3 Page Bonus Readings
Topic 4 Page D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places
Page Himmelfarb Link and Bremmer Link and Bernini Link
Topic 5 Page Links to Bonus Texts
Topic 6 Page Guido Cavelcanti POEMS AND MORE
Page Essential Dante Lyric
Topic 7 Page Paper Topic Options
Topic 8 Page Extra Reading for Wednesday 30 September
Topic 9 Page Images of Sins and Punishments
Topic 10 Page EH 366 Midterm Exam
Topic 11 Page Link to Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Waste Land
Topic 12 Page Modernist Manifestos
Topic 13 Page French Symbolist Vision of The Albatross

https://aestheticrealism.net/poems/the-albatross-by-charles-baudelaire/


The Albatross, By Charles Baudelaire

Translation by Eli Siegel

Often, to amuse themselves the men of the crew

Lay hold of the albatross, vast birds of the seas—

Who follow, sluggish companions of the voyage,

The ship gliding on the bitter gulfs.

Hardly have they placed them on the planks,

Than these kings of the azure, clumsy and shameful,

Let, piteously, their great wings in white,

Like oars, drag at their sides.

This winged traveler, how he is awkward and weak!

He, lately so handsome, how comic he is and uncomely!

Someone bothers his beak with a short pipe,

Another imitates, limping, the ill thing that flew!

The poet resembles the prince of the clouds

Who is friendly to the tempest and laughs at the bowman;

Banished to ground in the midst of hootings,

His wings, those of a giant, hinder him from walking.



Topic 14 Page Spengler's Decline of the West
Topic 15 Page Paper Due Wednesday 28 October 2020
Topic 16 Page Rilke Selections
Topic 17 Page Discussion Topics for Friday
Topic 19 Page Bonus Critical Claims
Topic 20 Page Extra Reading
Page Back to Dante and the Sestina Form
Page Rilke Duino Elegies First Poem
Page A Selection from The Book of Nightmares
Page More Galway
Topic 21 Page Rilke's Final Duino Elegy
Topic 22 Page Topic for Final Paper
Donne's "The Ecstasy" Page "The Ecstasy" by Donne
Wordsworth's "Intimations" Ode Page The Ode Text
Diving into the Wreck Page Diving into the Wreck
Final Reading : "The Garve" Page Final Reading: "The Grave," by Katherine Anne Porter
Commentary on "The Grave" Page Commentary on "The Grave"
Final Exam Bonus Option Page Final Exam Bonus Option
Final Exam-Essays Page Final Exam- Essay Choices