Reading Poetry is an intensive course in American poetry and poetics from > 1860 to 1960. Reading such poets as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ezra > Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Theodore
Roethke, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, and > Adrienne Rich, students will develop a more detailed understanding of the shifts in American verse amidst larger cultural, political, and historical trajectories. In addition to readings in the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (ed. Ramazani, et al., third edition.), students
will become acquainted with primary and secondary sources addressing poems’ composition, circulation, and reception. In addition to quizzes and a midterm exam, the course will include three papers (2, 3, and 5 pages in length), and require a revision of the final paper.

> Book list:
> Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Ed. Ramazani, et al.
> 3rd edition.
> ISBN 978-0393324297
> Course Packet