Course details

Name: ENLT - 492

Title: MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
Modern British and Irish Poetry will meet once a week as a seminar. This is an advanced course for students who love poetry: we'll study W. B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Stevie (aka Florence Margaret) Smith, Paul Muldoon, and other British and Irish poets, contemporary as well as modern. We'll consider stylistic issues (the multi-part long poem, the very short [two-line] poem, "fragments," allusiveness, revisions of 19th century poems), thematic issues (politics, sex, politics-and-sex, nationality, transnationality, oblique, ambiguous, & direct comments on class & gender), biographical background, and manuscript drafts of the poems we read. Students who take this class should be prepared to participate regularly in discussion as together we do close readings of major twentieth century (and a few twenty-first century) poems. Work will include regular participation, a mid-term, a few short papers, one long paper, a class presentation, and some kind of final exercise. Enthusiasm, interest, and previous course-work in poetry are essential.

Last updated on 2011-11-09 By Harrison Kim (harrisonk)

Schedule: Tuesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
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• Post-1900 (1d)

Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

Is course canceled: No