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ENGL 630

Studies in Poetry

3 credits · Graduate

Fall 2026 · Image and Object: The Metaphysics of Free Verse

Topics

  • Imagism
  • Objectivism and Objectism
  • Modernist free verse
  • Poetic form and metaphysics

Readings

  • H.D., Sea Garden (1916) in Collected Poems
    Listed reading
  • Ezra Pound, Lustra (1916) in Personae
    Listed reading
  • William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923)
    Listed reading
  • Mina Loy, Lunar Baedeker (1923) in Lost Lunar Baedeker
    Listed reading
  • Jean Toomer, Cane (1923)
    Listed reading
  • George Oppen, Discrete Series (1931) and Of Being Numerous (1968) in New Collected Poems
    Listed reading
  • Lorine Niedecker, North Central (1968) in Collected Works
    Listed reading
  • Charles Olson, In Cold Hell, In Thicket (1953)
    Listed reading
Sources