Course details

Name: ENGL - 324

Title: AMERICAN POETRY TO 1940

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
A survey of modern American poetry, beginning with Whitman and Dickinson and then moving into the 20th century with Sandburg and Frost as modern poets "in the American grain." A unit on early modernism will follow with attention to the poetic avant-garde: Symbolists, Imagists, Surrealists, Vorticists and Cubists. Then we will examine modernists of 1920-1935, including Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Pound. We then will study the Harlem Renaissance and the proletarian poets of the 1930's. The course will end with readings of three modern American long poems- Hart Crane's "The Bridge," Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead," and Melvin Tolson's "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia."

Last updated on 2011-11-02 By Benediktsson T (benediktssont)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Benediktsson T (benediktssont)

Is course canceled: No