20th Century American Poetry

ENL

327

20th Century American Poetry

A survey of twentieth-century American poetry ranging from early Modernism through the turn of the century. Poets may include such modernist figures as Frost, Eliot, Pound, Moore, W.C. Williams, Stevens, Hughes, and Hart Crane; such mid-century figures as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Sylvia Plath; and such later figures as Adrienne Rich, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, and Rita Dove. For English majors concentrating in literature, this course fulfills the requirements for American Literature or Genre/Theme. For linguistics, writing, and dramatic literature concentrators, it counts as an elective in the major.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes

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