ENGL 351
Modernist Poetry and Poetics
Spring 2014
Division I
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Class Details
This survey of Modernist poetry and poetics focuses on writers who “make it new,” in Pound’s phrase, creating innovative forms that reflect the pressures of a period marked by radical change. We will read many of the most remarkable poets of this immensely fertile artistic era, including Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stein, Stevens, Loy, Moore, H.D., Williams, Hughes, Brown, Zukofsky, Niedecker, and Oppen. While considerable time will be spent close reading poems, we will situate these writers within their social, political, and artistic contexts, and will ask what kind of inheritance they offer to subsequent generations. Our readings will thus lead us into further discussions about the period’s many transformations to the production and reception of poetry as a genre.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 3769
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 3769
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
in addition to bi-weekly response papers, you will research, write, and revise a 12-page term paper
Prerequisites:
a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences:
English majors
Distributions:
Division I
Attributes:
ENGL Literary Histories C
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ENGL 351 - 01 (S) SEM Modernist Poetry and Poetics
ENGL 351 - 01 (S) SEM Modernist Poetry and PoeticsDivision IMWF 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Schapiro Hall 1413769
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