READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2006

For starters, please review/reacquaint yourself with the smallish batch of Lowell readings initially assigned on September 5, which I've re-listed below:

91 Revere Street, by Robert Lowell, from Life Studies, 1959. (Will download as a PDF document).

From Robert Lowell's Selected Poems:

"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," p. 6.
"Beyond the Alps," p. 55.
"To Delmore Schwartz," p. 66.
"Memories of West Street and Lepke," p. 91.
"Skunk Hour," p. 95.

Please also read/print out the following articles, which are available as Full-Text Articles from WilsonSelectPlus in the USD Library Research Databases. To access WilsonSelectPlus, click HERE to get to the USD Library Research Databases page. Next, click on Arts and Humanities. On the next screen, click on Language and Literature. On the screen after that, click on Arts and Humanities Search. You'll be taken to a screen next that has a drop-down menu for databases to search, at which point you'll want to replace AH Search with WilsonSelectPlus on the drop-down menu. Now you can simply type in article or author titles to pull up the full-text articles from the WilsonSelectPlus database. (Please note that at some point during this process you'll most likely be prompted for your USD User ID and Password).

"Panel: Lowell Off the Page," by Robert Giroux, Charles McKinley, and Robert Dana, The Kenyon Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter 2000) pp. 255-74.

"Robert Lowell on Native Ground," by Richard Tillinghast, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 71 (Winter 1995, pp. 86-100.

"Looking Back at Robert Lowell," by Alan Williamson, The American Poetry Review, Vol. 24 (May/June 1995), pp. 35-38.

And please also go on to read the following new poems from Robert Lowell's Selected Poems :

"History," p. 159
"Coleridge," p. 174
"Randall Jarrell 1, 2, and 3," pp. 177-178
"For Eugene McCarthy," p. 182
"Reading Myself," p. 183
"Father," p. 195
"Mother and Father, 1 and 2," pp. 195-196
"Mother, 1972," p. 197
"Father in a Dream," p. 197
"To Daddy," p. 198
Part One of For Lizzie and Harriet, pp. 209-211
"Fall Weekend at Milgate," p. 231
"Mermaid," p. 233
"Mermaid Emerging," p. 237
"Late Summer at Milgate," p. 239
"Robert Sheridan Lowell," p. 239
"Christmas," p. 245
"Christmas," p. 246
"Dolphin," p. 246

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Finally, here is this week's memoir prompt from The Autobiography Box for blog posts due on Monday, October 23, 2006 :

Create a word portrait of yourself. Using as much descriptive language as possible, draw a picture of yourself, including physical attributes, but also the things that have given your face character--what you inherited from your parents, what life and time have done to alter it.