ENGL0312A-S25
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)
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)
- Term:
- Spring 2025
- Location:
- Axinn Center 229(AXN 229)
- Schedule:
- 2:15pm-3:30pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Feb 10, 2025 to May 12, 2025)
- Type:
- Lecture
- Course Modality:
- In-Person
- Instructors:
- Jay Parini
- Subject:
- English
- Department:
- English
- Division:
- Literature
- Requirements Fulfilled:
- LIT
- Levels:
- Undergraduate
- Availability:
- View availability, prerequisites, and other requirements.
- Course Reference Number (CRN):
- 22472
- Subject Code:
- ENGL
- Course Number:
- 0312
- Section Identifier:
- A