Instructor

TBD

Class Type 

Literature

Course Description

This course will explore the poetry and poetics leading up to the 20th Century which form the foundation of present-day poetic schools, modes, and styles. The course will include reading, analysis, and discussion of poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Barrett Browning, Browning, Arnold, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, Eliot, and Thomas.

Textbook

The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites
Editor: William Harmon
ISBN: 9780231112598
Edition: 2
Publisher: Columbia University Press