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From Pound To Olson: The Avant-Garde Poet As Pedagogue, Alan Golding Nov 2018

From Pound To Olson: The Avant-Garde Poet As Pedagogue, Alan Golding

Alan Golding

Ezra Pound’s sense of himself as poet-pedagogue—including his insistent desire to reform American higher education—is inseparable from his literary avant-gardism and his commitment to the principle of “discovery” or “newness.” This connection between experimental poetics and pedagogy forms a central part both of Pound’s significance as a writer and of his influence on a later avant-gardist and didact like Charles Olson, and anticipates the complexities of the subsequent relationship between American poetic avant-gardes and the academy. Olson was both a teacher at and rector of Black Mountain College, and in an unlikely conjunction, the forms of his institutional life enter …


Louis Zukofsky And The Avant-Garde Textbook, Alan Golding Nov 2018

Louis Zukofsky And The Avant-Garde Textbook, Alan Golding

Alan Golding

No abstract provided.


Book Review: David Rosen, "Power, Plain English, And The Rise Of Modern Poetry", Alan Golding Nov 2018

Book Review: David Rosen, "Power, Plain English, And The Rise Of Modern Poetry", Alan Golding

Alan Golding

No abstract provided.


Lying And Other Fun Habits, Emily Llerena May 2018

Lying And Other Fun Habits, Emily Llerena

Emily Llerena

An undergraduate thesis work consisting of four short stories.


What Do You Give To A God Who Has Everything? "In The Bleak Mid-Winter", Leslie A. Engelson Dec 2017

What Do You Give To A God Who Has Everything? "In The Bleak Mid-Winter", Leslie A. Engelson

Leslie Engelson

A discussion of Christina Rosetti and her poem "A Christmas Carol". A famous musical setting of this poem is by Gustav Holst and is where the title "In the Bleak Mid-Winter originated. Another setting, by Harold Darke is sung and broadcast every Christmas by the Kings College Choir at Cambridge. This essay also includes a personal account of the author's experience with the poem and it's meaning to her. The full text of the poem as well as the Holst version of the carol is also included.