Day Two: American Modernism

Modernism Ascendant

Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore: Bric-a-brac
William Carlos Williams: The Armory Show, “The Mouths of Polish Mothers”
E. E. Cummings: Poetry, Painting

Ekphrasis

William Carlos Williams and W. H. Auden: Looking at Brueghel

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Poems by Stevens: "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock," "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," "The Snow Man," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Study of Two Pears"

Poems by Moore: "Poetry," "The Wood-Weasel"

Poems by Williams: "Danse Russe," "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," "Spring and All," "To Elsie," "This Is Just to Say" (plus Kenneth Koch's "Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams")

Poems by Cummings: "Buffalo Bill's," "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"

Poems by Auden: "As I Walked Out One Evening," "Epitaph on a Tyrant," "Musee des Beaux Arts"

Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

The 1913 Armory Show (plus X. J. Kennedy's "Nude Descending a Staircase")