This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism.
Introduction
Robert Frost
Robert Frost (cont.)
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (cont.)
William Butler Yeats (cont.)
World War I Poetry in England
Imagism
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot (cont.)
T.S. Eliot (cont.)
Hart Crane
Hart Crane (cont.)
Langston Hughes
William Carlos Williams
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore (cont.)
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Wallace Stevens (cont.)
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden (cont.)
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)