ENGL 2070

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ENGL 2070
Introduction to Modern Poetry

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"I too dislike it," writes Marianne Moore in her poem "Poetry." Do you like poetry? Do you greet it with Moore's ironic "perfect contempt," or just some hesitation? Welcome one and all to a survey of English-language poetry written in the 20th century! When do we resist and when do we embrace what poems have to offer? We will consider poems written in traditional verse as well as in innovative forms; poems that are relatively easy to read and poems that are extremely challenging; poems that deal with war, race, gender, sex, and science; important poetic movements from Symbolism to the Beats. Poets to be studied may include Yeats, Bishop, Williams, Stein, Auden, Eliot, Hughes, Ginsberg, and Plath.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16098 ENGL 2070   SEM 101

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