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

4 HU, WR
Second Semester. What are poems for? What good do they serve? How do poets describe, explain, or justify their art? The questions will guide us in a broader inquiry into poetry and its place among other arts. Poets will include Horace, Shakespeare, Pope, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop, Ashbery, Graham. Critics will include Lu Chi, Plato, Coleridge, Jakobson, Vendler, Bloom, Grossman. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: See headnote above. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.
Mr. Harrison

Credits: 4 hours