Genre: Advanced Topics

Study of works drawn from a specific literary genre or subgenre. Examples include Confessional Poetry, The Early Novel and Revenge Tragedy.

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392A: Genre:Modern Poetry

Genre: Advanced Topics: Modern Poetry

This discussion-based course will involve extensive and intensive readings of some major poets from the first half of the twentieth century, including Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Williams, Frost, Moore, and others (I'm still deciding). We'll also look at some poets in their groups: the Imagists, the World War I poets, the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Issues discussed will include internationalism, experimentalism vs. formalism, political poetry, poetry of place. Be prepared to read (and re-read) a lot, and to write frequently.