ENGL 222
Lyric Poetry
Spring 2015
Division I
Writing Skills
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Class Details
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
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
ENGL Literary Histories B
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ENGL 222 - 01 (S) SEM Lyric Poetry
ENGL 222 - 01 (S) SEM Lyric PoetryDivision I Writing SkillsMWF 10:00 am - 10:50 am
Hopkins Hall 400 (Rogers Room)3572
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