ENGL 241

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Beginnings of Modern Poetry

Credit: 3 hours.

An inquiry into some of the more complex and innovative poetry written in English. Students will read poets such as Frost, Robinson, Sandburg, Lindsay, Hardy, Hopkins, Housman, Yeats, Lawrence, the Imagists, and the early Pound and Eliot.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 241 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	45952	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	Altgeld Hall	Truran, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Degree Notes: Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: "Make it new!" was the cry of Imagist Ezra Pound. "We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness" said the Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Modernist poetry offers an exhilarating, challenging, and deeply rewarding reading experience. The poetry can be difficult; artists were grappling with difficult times: war, death on an unprecedented scale, gender role upheaval, a technology explosion, and the birth of the split subject within psychoanalysis. Everything was changing and modernist poetics reflected that. The poetry is deep, thrilling, and engaging but rarely simple. Students will read canonical authors such as W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound but also Mina Loy, War Poets, Sylvia Townsend Warner and other forgotten gems. Sign up for the Beginnings of Modernist Poetry to see if the Sirens will sing for you...do you dare to eat this peach?