Middlebury

ENGL 0312

Modern Poetry

Modern Poetry
This course will examine the nature and achievement of the major modern poets of Britain and America during the modern period, beginning with the origins of poetic modernism in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman. The central figures to be studied are William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and W.H. Auden. The course will conclude with a look at some after-echoes of modernism in the work of Elizabeth Bishop and others. Two papers, one exam, with occasional oral presentations in class 3 hrs. lect./disc.(Formerly ENAM 0312)
Subject:
English
Department:
English
Division:
Literature
Requirements Fulfilled:
LIT
Equivalent Courses:
AMLT 0312
ENAM 0312

Sections in Fall 2003

Fall 2003

ENGL0312A-F03 Lecture (Parini)