ENGL 222
Lyric Poetry Spring 2015
Division I Writing Skills
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The goal of this writing-intensive gateway course is to advance our abilities as rigorous, subtle, and imaginative interpreters of poetry. Our focus will be on lyrics–relatively short poems in which a single speaker describes (often in intense language) his or her emotions, attitudes, or state of mind. Our readings will be drawn from a range of historical periods from the seventeenth century forward, with particular emphasis on poems written since the mid-nineteenth century. Among the poets likely to be studied are: Jonson, Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson, Hardy, Owen, Yeats, Auden, Frost, and Heaney. We will also discuss works by two poets at Williams: Lawrence Raab and Jessica Fisher.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3572
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: active participation in seminar discussion, and 4 or 5 papers (about 20 pages total)
Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, or a score of 5 on the Advanced Placement examination in English Literature or a 6 or 7 on the International Baccalaureate
Enrollment Preferences: sophomores and first-year students who have not yet taken an ENGL Gateway course
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Attributes: ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL Literary Histories B

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