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ENGL 437 - Seminar: Ars Poetica: Poetry, Art, Thought


Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR

What are poems for? What good do they serve? How do poets describe, explain, or justify their art? These questions will guide us in a broad inquiry into poetry and its place among the other arts. Readings will include poets, critics, and poet-critics: Horace, Shakespeare, Pope, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Stevens, Ashbery, Graham, Plato, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Kristeva, Vendler, Bloom, Grossman, Stewart. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).  Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
Instructor: D. Harrison
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Senior Tutorials and Seminars.”



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