Lyric Language: Renaissance Forms and Modern Poetry

Tracing poetic forms from renaissance to modern-- stubborn models like the sonnet (Shakespeare/Berryman), the ode (Jonson/ Creely), and the sestina (Sidney/Bishop); soft forms like blank/free verse (Milton/Wordsworth/Eliot); generic containers like elegy, epigram, and satire (Herrick/Donne/Keats/Auden); low and nonsense verse (Skelton/Caroll/hip-hop); and the functions of repeatable forms like line and stanza (Spenser/Tennyson/Dr. Suess/Heijinian).