ENGL 310
Modern Poetry
Spring 2007
Topics
- Introduction
- Robert Frost
- Robert Frost (cont.)
- William Butler Yeats
- William Butler Yeats (cont.)
- William Butler Yeats (cont.)
- World War I Poetry in England
- Imagism
- Ezra Pound
- T.S. Eliot
- T.S. Eliot (cont.)
- T.S. Eliot (cont.)
- Hart Crane
- Hart Crane (cont.)
- Langston Hughes
- William Carlos Williams
- Marianne Moore
- Marianne Moore (cont.)
- Wallace Stevens
- Wallace Stevens (cont.)
- Wallace Stevens (cont.)
- W. H. Auden
- W. H. Auden (cont.)
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)
- Final Exam
Readings
- Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O'Clair, eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry . Vol. 1, Modern Poetry . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
- RIS Course Packet
- Bishop, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 . New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983.
- Pound, Ezra. Selected Poems . New York: A New Directions Paperbook, 1957.
- Moore, Marianne. Complete Poems . New York: McMillan Publishing Co., Penguin Books, 1982.
- Bishop, Elizabeth. The Collected Prose . Edited, with an introduction by Robert Giroux. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.
- Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound . Edited by Valerie Eliot. New York: A Harvest Special, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971.
- Simon, Marc, ed. Complete Poems of Hart Crane. London: Liveright, 2000.
- Stevens, Wallace. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens . New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
- Stevens, Wallace. Opus Posthumous . Edited, with an Introduction, by Samuel French Morse. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
- Mendelson, Edward, ed. W. H. Auden. Selected Poems. New Edition . New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
- Finneran, Richard J., ed. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. A New Edition . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983.
- Lathem, Edward Connery, ed. The Poetry of Robert Frost. The Collected Poems . New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1979.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.