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Course Catalog 2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENGL 306 - Poetry and the Mind: Verse Forms in the English Renaissance and Afterward


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR

New course added 10.28.2008.

We’ll consider the interrelationship between verse (an art of rhythmic sound patterns) and poetry (an art of strange or intense meaning). We will read early modern poets and critics, to understand how the experiences of writing and of reading poetry were understood in the days when poetry was verse. Then we will read work from more recent times. We will also consider poetry in relation to what recent cognitive researchers call “conceptual blending.” Pre-1700 OR Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: M. Booth
Prerequisites & Notes
Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.


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