ENG 373 - Studies in Modern Poetry

This course begins with the inventors of modern poetry–Whitman, Dickinson, Hopkins, and Hardy–exploring how they re-imagined selfhood, faith, and doubt for a modern, secular world. Then we turn to the 20th century, to the modernist period and the drive to “make it new.” We’ll read Imagists, Futurists, and Cubists; study the Harlem Renaissance; and examine the poetry of World Wars I and II. Poets include: W. B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, e.e. cummings, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, W. H. Auden, and more.

Students entering 2012:  satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012:  Satisfies the Literature distribution requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
First-year students require permission of the instructor.