ENG 612 Studies in Modern Poetry
This is a seminar course for Master’s-level students interested in studying this modern, re-interpretative form of poetry. Students study the genre from a worldview and note how poetry modernizes in the early twentieth century, by focusing on scenes and landscapes, street poetry, images, and a concentration on the speaker. Students write their own poetry as assignments. Major poets are studied, including Yeats, Neruda, Eliot, Rilke, Paz, Akhmatora, Pound, Williams, Cavafy, and Lorca.