
Calendar
Week One, Sunday, March 19
Homer, selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey
Week Two, Thursday, March 29
Virgil, selections from the Aeneid
Week Three, Thursday, April 5
Shakespeare, selection from Henry V
Week Four, Thursday, April 12
Whitman, “Come up from the Fields Father” and “The Wound-Dresser”
Hardy, “Channel Firing”
Brooke, “The Soldier”
Week Five, Thursday, April 19
Yeats, “On Being Asked for a War Poem” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
Strobel, “Snow”
Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
Week Six, Thursday, April 26
Hughes, “Six Young Men”
Chapin, “Interval of Peace”
Auden, “Here War is Simple,” “September 1, 1939,” and “The Shield of Achilles”
Week Seven, Thursday, May 3
Appleman, “Waiting for the Fire”
Komunyakaa, “Facing It”
Turner, “Sadiq”