Current Courses
Modern American Poetry
AML 4242 (sec. 1D29)
This course takes an in-depth look at poems by Robert Frost,
Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks,
Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Rita Dove. Besides considering their
interplay of traditional vs. innovative forms, we will focus on the poetry’s
relationships to the natural world, domesticity, visual culture, and the city. In
addition, we will consider the poetry’s public roles in the United States.
Course assignments are two papers, a panel presentation, a parody, reading
quizzes, and engaged participation in discussion. Our work together will
sharpen your skills in literary analysis, as well as provide strategies for
writing and speaking more clearly and effectively.
Modern British Poetry
ENL 3154 (sec. 11A8)
This course provides in-depth analysis of W.B. Yeats,
Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Ted
Hughes, Grace Nichols, and current Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. We will
examine their poems, lives, and cultural contexts. As we move through the
semester, gender, family, and nation become increasingly dislocated as traditional
concepts of “poetry” and “British” continue to shift. Course assignments are
two papers, a panel presentation, a parody, reading quizzes, and engaged
participation in discussion. Our work together will
sharpen your skills in literary analysis, as well as provide strategies for
writing and speaking more clearly and effectively.
Next semester’s courses
- Sylvia Plath and Her Cultural Afterlife (undergraduate)
- Sylvia Plath and Her Cultural Afterlife (graduate)