Course details

Name: ENGL - 561

Title: MODERN AMERICAN POETRY

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
“On or about December 1910, human character changed,” Virginia Woolf wrote. This change—call it modernism—reverberated throughout American poetry. This course will examine what that change consisted in by considering the work of some of the principal American modernists—including Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Pound, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein—as well as that of their early successors, such as Robert Lowell. Class discussion will attend closely to the social and historical contexts of individual poets and of poetic movements. (N.B. No prompts will be assigned for papers in this course; students must arrive at their own arguments, as with their M.A. theses.) This course will be online.

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

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Robbins Michael (robbinsm)

Is course canceled: No