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Academic Year 2000/2001
Poetry and Insight
ENGL 269 SP
This course concerns the relation between human creative capacities and their cognitive capacities. The thesis of the course is that acts of knowing use imaginative and intuitive powers. To study how imagination
functions, we will read a selection of
British and American poetry in the tradition of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. We will also read essays on the nature of imagination and on cultivating a consciousness capable of insight. Attentional exercises will
provide first-hand experience of
students? own capacities for "insight-imagination." Students will keep a notebook monitoring their experience with the exercises and will also write essays on course themes. The course is for intellectually mature and
inquiring students. Casual effort is
not sufficient for this kind of work.
MAJOR READINGS
Selected poems and some prose by: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Stevens, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton, Joy Harjo. Collateral essays by such authors as Owen Barfield, Rudolf
Steiner, Henri Bortoft.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
See course description.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Prerequisite: ENGL201 or another college-level course in poetry. No preference to majors and does NOT fulfill any of our Departmental requirements. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or
communicate directly with the
instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
ENGL201
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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