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Academic Year 2003/2004


Poems
COL 290 FA

Close reading of selected poems by British and American writers. We will attend to mimesis and meanings, to relations of form, style and content, to aesthetics, historical moment, and current appeal. Ballads, sonnets, songs, lyrics, odes, and dramatic monologues by poets from Chaucer's time to ours, including Shakespeare, Marvell, Donne, Anne Bradstreet, Milton, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, T.S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, Frost, Plath, Bishop, and Clifton. More extensive consideration of Keats, Emily Dickinson, and Yeats.

MAJOR READINGS

Mentioned in course descriptions.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Papers, class presentation.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA COL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004


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