Course details

Name: ENGL - 541

Title: MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
Students in Modern British and Irish Poetry will read work by W. B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Stevie (aka Florence Margaret) Smith, W. H. Auden, and one or two other British or Irish poets, such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Philip Larkin, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. 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 will be encouraged to contribute to discussion as together we do close readings of major twentieth century poems. Assignments will include an oral report, a short paper, and a long final paper. Two Irish scholars will visit our seminar to lecture on their specialties, and there will also be a field trip to the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library (the one with the lions at 42nd Street) to view the original manuscripts of The Waste Land and of poems by Yeats.

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

Graduation requirements:

• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

Is course canceled: No