Calendar

Week One, Sunday, March 19

    Homer, selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Week Two, Thursday, March 29  

    Virgil, selections from the Aeneid 

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Week Three, Thursday, April 5

    Shakespeare, selection from Henry V

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Week Four, Thursday, April 12

    Whitman, “Come up from the Fields Father” and “The Wound-Dresser”

    Hardy, “Channel Firing”

    Brooke, “The Soldier”

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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”

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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”