Modern Poetry is an intensive course in Anglo-American poetry and poetics from 1900 to 1945. Reading such poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, H.D., Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Theodore Roethke, students will develop a more detailed understanding of the development of modern verse alongside larger cultural, political, and historical trajectories. Students will become acquainted with primary and secondary sources addressing poems’ composition, publication, and reception. The course includes three essays, group presentations, quizzes, and participation in a class conference.


Course Packet at the Ave Copy Center
Ramazani, et al, eds., Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Volume I. ISBN: 0393977919