In this tutorial, intended primarily for sophomores, we will consider poems generated out of the experiences of urban life. The city provides for poets a vivid mental and imaginative landscape in which to consider the relation of vice and squalor to glamor; the nature of anonymity and distinction; and the pressure of myriad bodies on individual consciousness. We will explore ways in which the poet's role in the body politic emerges in representations of the city as a site both of civilized values and of struggles for power marked by guile and betrayal. Poets will include Dante, Pope, Swift, Blake, Wordsworth, Emerson, Baudelaire, Yeats, Crane, Moore, Auden, Hughes, Ginsberg, Baraka, O'Hara and Ashbery. We will also draw on essays by Weber, Williams, Benjamin and Canetti; photographs by Hines, Weegee, and Abbott; the blues, as sung by Holliday and Vaughan; and films such as Berlin: Symphony of a City and Man with a Movie Camera. Format: tutorial. Requirements: students will meet with the instructor in pairs for an hour each week, will write a 5-page paper every other week and comment on their partners' papers in alternate weeks. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills not only in reading and interpretation, but also in constructing critical arguments and responding to them in written and oral critiques. Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, except 150. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10). Preference given to sophomores.