ENGL 229 - Twentieth-Century Poetry

3 HU, WR
First and Second Semester. An introduction to British and American lyric poetry, with attention to the complex relation between innovation and tradition, music and discord, pattern and disruption, as well as public discourse and intimate awareness. Specific emphasis on the challenges and opportunities that lyric poems present to writers of critical prose. Readings from Hardy, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Hughes, Moore, Lowell, Plath, Ashbery, Heaney, Graham, Komunyakaa. Post-1900.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”.
Enrollment Limit: 30.
Mr. Harrison

Credits: 3 hours