English 624-001
Seminar in Modern Literature: Modernist American Poetry
Instr: Samuels, Lisa
Office: CRT 506; 229-5910
e-mail: lsamuels@uwm.edu
Office hours:
Course Information: T&R; 3:30-4:45pm; SAB G25
Course Description
Our course will examine an amazing period in the development of new American poetry: Modernism, whose period can be broadly timed as 1909-1929. We will read Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Laura Riding, among others, using both individual author texts and anthology excerpts as well as a course packet of helpful commentaries. Among many topics, we will discuss war, ex-patriotism, the Harlem Renaissance, and new issues in language, psychology, reference, and poetic forms. Students will write email responses to readings every other week, as well as two short (6 pages) and one long (12+ pages) essay. A class presentation, and avid participation, are also required.
