Discussions 2012

[ if not posted - contact Wendy for specifics - group is definitely still meeting every month]


• Thurs, January 19, 2012 6:30-8:00(ish)
  [note from Wendy: Although we did one of Longfellow's poems last time, we liked him so much we decided to expand and do a whole discussion just on him. There's only two poems, but one of them is very long ("Paul Revere's Ride") but what an interesting poem it is!]
  Both poems below can be downloaded from: HERE.
  • The Arrow and The Song
  • Paul Revere's Ride

Discussions 2011

[ if not posted - contact Wendy for specifics - group is definitely still meeting every month]


• Thurs, October 20, 2011 6:30-8:00(ish)
  
  [note: Wendy has compiled the three poems (in French as well as in English) into one convenient PDF file available at: http://www.houstonbookclubs.org/HoustonPoetry/baudelaire2011-Oct20.pdf
  
  1. TO THE READER by Baudelaire
  2. INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE by Baudelaire
  3. THE END OF THE DAY by Baudelaire
  
  
  

Discussions prior years

Discussions 2009

• Monday, Jan. 19, 6-8pm FAERIE QUEEN,Book One
  
  
• Monday, April 6, 6-8pm John Donne's Poetry
  Freed-Montrose Library, Upstairs conference room
  
  
• Monday, May 25, 6-8pm DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe
  Freed-Montrose Library, Upstairs conference room
  
  
• Thursday, July 30, 6:30pm TAMBURLAINE by Christopher Marlowe
  at the Black Lab restaurant (adjacent to the Freed-Monrose library)

  You can find all of these poems below, even the longer ones, online. When we are reading a selection of poems and you have a favorite poem by that particular poet that is not on the list, bring it along with a handful of copies.

• Thursday, August 27, Shakespeare
  
  • Sonnet 18—Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    
  • 66—Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
    
  • 116—Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    
  • 129—Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
    
  • 146—Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth
    
    
• Thursday, September 17, Sir Philip Sydney
  
  • Sonnet 31—With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies
    
  • 39—Come sleep, Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace
    
  • Fourth Song: Only joy, now here you are
    
  • Ring Out Your Bells
    
  • The Nightingale
    
    
• Thursday, October 15, Sir Philip Sydney
  
  • In the Defense of Poesy
    
    
• Thursday, November 19, Sir George Gascoigne
  
  • Gascoigne's Woodmanship
    
  • Gascoigne's Lullaby
    
    
• Thursday, December 17, Sir Walter Raleigh
  
  • The Lie
    
  • What Is Our life?
    
  • Even Such Is Time
    
    
• Thursday, January 21, Thomas Campion
  
  • When Thou Must Home
    
  • There is a Garden in Her Face
    
  • Now Winter Nights Enlarge
    
  • Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee
    
    
• Thursday, February 18, Ben Jonson
  
  • An Elegy: Though beauty to the mark of praise
    
  • An Ode to Himself: Where dost thou careless lie
    
  • Come, my Ceclia
    
  • To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name
    
  • Queen and Huntress
    
    
• Thursday, March 18, Female Poets of the Renaissance
  
  • Queen Elizabeth—On Monsieur's Departure
    
  • Anne Askew—The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate
    
  • Lady Mary Wroth—When night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove & Love What Art Thou?
    
    
• Thursday, April 22, John Milton
  (date changed from usual 3rd Thursday in April to 4th Thursday)
  
  • Paradise Lost Book 1 through Book 4
    
    
• Thursday, May 20, John Milton
  
  • Paradise Lost Book 5 through Book 8
    
    
• Thursday, June 17, John Milton
  
  • Paradise Lost Book 9 through Book 12
    
  
  
  

  2007

• Oct 11 organizational meeting
  
  
• Nov 8 GILGAMESH recommended translation by Stephen Mitchell
  
  
• Dec 13 meeting cancelled - Have a Merry Christmas
  
  

  2008

• Jan 7 BEOWULF recommended translation by Seamus Heaney
  
  
• Feb 18 THE ODYSSEY by Homer
  recommended abridged version at: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~Johnstoi/homer/AbridgedOdyssey.htm
  Downstairs conference room
  
  
• Mar 31 WIFE OF BATH by Chaucer
  Upstairs conference room
  
  
• April 28 SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
  (any version will work), Upstairs conference room
  
  
• July 21THE INFERNO by Dante, recommended translation by Robert Pinsky
  
  
• August 18 PETRARCH SONNETS selections TBA
  
  
• September 15 SONG OF ROLAND recommended translation by Robert Harrison
  
  
• Monday, Nov. 17, 6-8pm English sonnets before Shakespeare
  Requires no prior reading! If you have a favorite sonnet (or two or three), bring a handful of copies with you. Otherwise, come and enjoy the poetry! Last Revised:January 18, 2012
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