ENG 661B - Modern and Contemporary Poetry

(3 units)

Readings in such poets as Auden, Eliot, Frost, Thomas, Stevens, Yeats, Williams.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to poems using literary-critical vocabulary.
4. evaluate the formal and thematic elements of modern British and American poems.
5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic and literary works in written work and class presentations.

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