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DATES PRESENTATION TOPICS STUDENT NAME

Tue 1/29 1) Religious Contemplations: New England Calvinism/Puritanism  Anne Bradstreet Lisa Cunningham

 Michael Wigglesworth

 Edward Taylor [Savannah Smith]

Tue 2/5 2) Other Religious Voices  Juana Inés de la Cruz

Tue 2/12 3) African American Poetic Voices and the Poetry of Abolition

 Jupiter Hammon (Anthology 1)   Phillis Wheatley (Anthology 1)   John Greenleaf Whittier

Thu 2/21 4) The Return of the Native: Native American Poetic Voices and the figure of the Indian in the Euro-American Imagination

 Samson Occom (Anthology 1)

Tue 2/26 5) Not So Funny…: American Satire and Popular Verse

 Ebenezer Cook   Joseph Green

Tue 3/4 6) The Empire Writes Back: American Revolutionary and Early National Poetry

 Thomas Paine Jennifer Perkins   Philip Freneau   Joel Barlow   Royal Tyler

Thu 3/6 Continued.

Tue 3/11 7) The Rise of the Woman Poet  Susanna Wright   Hannah Griffits (Anthology 1)   Mercy Otis Warren (Anthology 1)   Annis Boudinot Stockton (Anthology 1)   Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (Anthology 1)   Lydia Huntley Sigourney (Anthology 2) and handout   Julia Ward Howe (Anthology 2) Thu 3/13 continued

Tue 3/25 8) Romantic Ruminations

 William Cullen Bryant,   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Edgar Allan Poe

Tue 4/1 9) Walt Whitman Matt Sherling/Derek Null

Thu 4/10 11) Emily Dickinson