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The Art of Poetry: Modern Lyric Poetry Instructor: Ullrich Horstmann Course Information: MWR 1:00pm - 2:45pm
CRT 203
Course Description: The last decades have witnessed a steady decline in the fortunes of poetry as far as its academic standing is concerned, and it may be high time to remember Dr Johnson's advice to the cornered: "Do not sit there and growl; come out as I do, and bark!" A poem should be articulate, snappish and snappy and the course will stress these qualities both as a learner-oriented introduction to and a dogged defence of 20th-century verse and its regenerative power. Though the poetry and poetics of modernism (Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Allen Tate) will receive due attention, the undercurrent and emergence of heterodox or even explicitly anti-modernist modes of writing (Robinson Jeffers, e. e. cummings, the 'beats', Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes) must not be overlooked, as it is the interplay of both forces which will secure the survival of this primeval form of literature. Students are expected to produce a paper on a poem/poems of their choice and to present one of the poets under discussion in class. Required text: The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, ed. Richard
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