Middlebury

ENAM0312A-F09

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.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
91264
Subject Code:
ENAM
Course Number:
0312
Section Identifier:
A

Course

ENAM 0312

All Sections in Fall 2009

Fall 2009

ENAM0312A-F09 Lecture (Parini)