ENGL 4850

Reading for Writers

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This semester's topic is: Reading as a Poet: Going Public. The reading of poetry is the single most important element of a poet's education. In this course, we'll read a volume of poems each week and post descriptive, interpretive comments on social media sites, such as Goodreads, twitter, blogs, or online journals. In this way, our class will join—affect and improve—the international conversation on poetry and poetics. We'll discuss content and craft to understand divergent aesthetics, and we'll investigate each book's historical provenance: where did this poetry come from? What are its affinities? In order to write well-informed reviews, we'll delve into essays on poetics, blogs, interviews. "There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page...becomes luminous with manifold allusion." (Emerson)

When Offered Spring.

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