Taking Further Analytical Steps: for 5/13

To help each student reader become more critical of the poems, it is important to size up what our own readings of the individual writers' works with those of published critics and reviewers alike.

One really good site on Modern American Poets, for instance, is the following website run by the University of Illinois *click bold link*. This particular site may help enrich your reading of some of the work we've read, are reading, and will read, before the term is over and June sets fire to our skin!

Part of your homework for Wednesday:

• Find, and print off, a published piece of criticism of one of the authors we are assigned to read this week. 
  
• Bring it in, having read, and be ready to discuss the criticism.*
• Go to an academic database (on library network!), use the one provided above, or evaluate on-line sources not endorsed by professor, but that do seem reputable academic sites ( www. . . . .edu sites most often are reputable). 
• WIKIPEDIA IS NOT, I REPEAT, NOT, I REPEAT, NOT A REPUTABLE SITE

*This particular assignment is something I am going to push the students in this particular course to do more and more, with three major goals particularly in mind:

1. To make you aware of how the literary world views the literature of our time.
2. To provide you models for your own criticism and critical writing strategies
3. To support and/or challenge your own readings of the texts.