Course details

Name: ENGL - 600

Title: MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2016

Credits: 3

Description:
ENGL 600:
Seminar in British Literature
Modern British and Irish Poetry
Professor Lucy McDiarmid
Tuesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

This seminar will focus on the poetry of W. B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith, and one or two other poets such as Seamus Heaney or Paul Muldoon. We'll consider stylistic issues (the multi-part long poem, the very short [two-line] poem, "fragments," allusiveness, revisions of nineteenth century poems), thematic issues (politics, sex, politics-and-sex, nationality, transnationality, oblique, ambiguous, and direct comments on class and gender), biographical background, and manuscript drafts of the poems we read. Students are expected to participate regularly in discussion as together we do close readings of major twentieth century poems. Work will include an oral report, several short papers, and a long final paper. There will be a field trip to the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library to view the original manuscripts of The Waste Land and poems by Yeats.

Last updated on 2016-03-08 By McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

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

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

Is course canceled: No