​Pre-Twentieth Century
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

George Herbert: 
The Altar
The Collar
Easter Wings
Love (III)

John Donne: 
The Relic
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Death be not Proud
Batter My Heart

John Milton's Lycidas

Friederich Schiller: 
The Walk

William Blake: 
Marriage of Heaven and Hell 
Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Wordsworth: 
The Prelude Books 1, 2 & 6
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Ode: Intimations on Immortality
​Tintern Abbey

Samuel Coleridge: 
Dejection: an Ode
This Limetree Bower my Prison
First 2 chapters of Biographia Literaria

John Keats: 
all the Odes
samples of Letters (Benjamin Bailey Nov. 22 1817; Especially to John Taylor Feb. 27 1818; Oct 27 1918 Richard Woodhouse; Fanny Braun July 15 1819)

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 
Adonais
A Defense of Poetry
Ozymandias

Charles Baudelaire: 
Les Fleurs du Mal
Paris Spleen

Arthur Rimbaud: 
Illuminations
The Drunken Boat

Stephane Mallarme:
Un Coup De Des

Gerard Manley Hopkins:
Sonnets

Walt Whitman: 
preface to Leaves of Grass
all of Leaves of Grass

Emily Dickinson: 
​Complete Poems

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​Early and Mid-Twentieth Century
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Gertrude Stein

Wallace Stevens

W.C. Williams

​H.D.

Marianne Moore

T.S. Eliot

Lorine Niedecker

George Oppen

Robert Duncan

​​Robert Creeley
                

Three writers I have been reading this month: Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett on Marcel Proust, Brian Teare