1. Canvas
Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road (1961), chapters 1-4
Ross Macdonald, The Drowning Pool (1950), chapters 1-3
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963), chapters 1-3
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963), chapters 1-3
Ralph Ellison: Introduction (1981) and Prologue. Invisible Man (1952)
Music: Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (1959)

2. Within the Limits
(See Word file "C Limits New Crit Poems")
James Merrill: ‘The Black Swan’, ‘The Broken Bowl’
Adrienne Rich: ‘Storm Warnings’, ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’
Richard Wilbur: ‘The Beautiful Changes’, ‘&’, ‘O’
John Berryman: ‘The Statue’
Suggested background music: chamber music by Haydn or Mozart

3. Explosion
Allen Ginsberg: ‘Howl’ (1956), ‘Kaddish’ (1961)
Robert Lowell: Life Studies (1959)
Richard Wilbur: Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems (1961)
Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Travel (1965)
James Merrill: Water Street (1962)
Sylvia Plath: Ariel (1965)
Suggested Background Music: Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan
Desktop: Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper