My Summer. Officially.

Genre—The Long/Serial Poem
[Joseph Conte, “Seriality and the Contemporary Long Poem”]

1. Unknown, The Dream of the Rood (10th century)**
2. Unknown, Pearl (c. 1385)*
3. Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1591); The Defence of Poesy (1595)*
4. John Donne, The First Anniversarie: An Anatomy of the World (1611)*
5. William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)*
6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) *
7. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (1845); The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
8. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1799-1805; pub. 1850) *
9. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1891)*
10. Mina Loy, Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose (1923-1925)*
11. Hart Crane, The Bridge (1930)*
12. Gertrude Stein, Stanzas in Meditation (1932; pub. 1980?)
13. Louis Zukofsky, from “A” in Selected Poems ed. Charles Bernstein (1927-1978)*
14. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems (1955; pub. 1996)*
15. H.D., Helen in Egypt (1961)*
16. Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery (1965)*

Historical Period—Modernism (1895-1955)
[Peter Nicholls, Modernisms]

1. Manifestos: Stéphane Mallarmé, “A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance” (1897); Filipo Tommaso Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909); Victor Khlebnikov and Alexey Kruchenykh, “The Letter as Such” (1913) and “The Word as Such” (1913); Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts By an Imagiste” (1913) and “A Retrospect” (1913, 1918); Mina Loy, “Feminist Manifesto” (1914); “Aphorisms on Futurism” (1914-1919), “Aphorisms on Modernism” (1914-1919), “The Artist and the Public” (1917); Wyndham Lewis, “Bless England” (1914-1915) and “Curse with Expletive of Whirlwind the Britannic Aesthete” (1914-1915)
2. Henry James, In the Cage (1898)
3. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)*
4. Gertrude Stein, Three Lives (1909)*
5. James Joyce, Dubliners (1914)*
6. Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916 (1918)*
7. T.S. Eliot, LOA Selection (1922 pub. “The Waste Land”)*
8. Jean Toomer, Cane (1923)*
9. William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923)*
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)*
11. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)*
12. Laura (Riding) Jackson, from A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927) and from Contemporaries and Snobs (1928)*
13. Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)*
14. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
15. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)*
16. Ezra Pound, Pisan Cantos (1948)*
17. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952; 1956)*

Theme/Theory—Textual Conditions: Form, Material, Constraint, Experiment
[Jerome McGann, The Textual Condition; Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter]

1. Sappho (trans. Anne Carson), If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (5th Century BCE; 2003)
2. Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436)*
3. “Tottell’s Miscellany,” Song and Sonnets (1557)*
4. George Herbert, The Temple (1633)*
5. Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759)*
6. William Blake, Book of Thel (1789)*
7. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822)*
8. Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems (19th century)*
9. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872)*
10. Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1951; pub. 1957)*
11. William Burroughs, Nova Express (1959)
12. Raymond Queneau, Cent mille milliards de poèmes (1961)
13. Charles Reznikoff, Testimony: The United States (1895-1905) Recitative (1965)
14. Andy Warhol, a, A Novel (1968)
15. Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994)*
16. Kenneth Goldsmith, Fidget (2001)
17. Christian Bok, Eunoia (2003)