ENGL 241

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Modern Poetry

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Credit: 3 hours.

Studies poetry in English during the first half of the twentieth century, including Modernist experimentalism and its aftermath. Class time focuses on close readings of poems by major figures such as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., Hart Crane, Claude McKay, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and Langston Hughes.

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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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	45952	Lecture-Discussion	D	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Davenport Hall	Newcomb, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: SP22 ENGL 241 Modern Poetry – Tim Newcomb In 1900 many Americans and some British seriously believed that poetry as a type of literary writing was so thoroughly obsolete in the modern world that it was about to disappear altogether. Instead something amazing happened beginning around 1912. Instead of withering away, poetry took off. By 1950, poets enjoyed more cultural prestige than ever before. Magazines and prizes devoted themselves to “the New Verse.” Writers such as William Butler Yeats, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Amy Lowell were world-famous, and another group including Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H. D., and Langston Hughes were writing some of the greatest poems in the English language. In ENGL 241 we will trace how that startling reversal of fortune happened when poets rejected Victorian traditions and embraced the styles, subjects, and voices of 20th-century modernity.