Modern Poetry credit:

3 Hours

Studies poetry in English during the first half of the twentieth century, including Modernist experimentalism and its aftermath. Class time focuses on close readings of poems by major figures such as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., Hart Crane, Claude McKay, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and Langston Hughes. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Cultural Studies - Western