ENGL 241

Spring 2026 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6

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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ENGL 241 class schedule data for spring 2026
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	45952	Lecture-Discussion	D	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	69 English Building	Wood, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: SP26 ENGL 241 - Modern Poetry - Gillen Wood - In ENGL 241 we read major anglophone poets of the first half of the twentieth century. One focus will be on modernism, part of a highly influential transatlantic movement whose practitioners launched an assault on literary convention and sought to “make it new.” But attention will be given likewise to poets, such as Yeats, Frost, and Hughes, who resisted the iconoclastic attitudes of the modernists and insisted instead on continuity with poetic schools of the past, the Romantics in particular. Broadly considered, modern poetry (1900-1950) offers a polyphony of voices that has had a deep, abiding influence on contemporary poetry and continues to act as a default standard for what “literature” is and should be.