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Academic Year 2005/2006
Poetry and Insight
ENGL 269 FA
Poems are acts of imaginative and intuitive knowing. It takes --imaginative and intuitive powers to produce poems and also to read them fully. In order to explore how imagination functions, we will read a selection of
British
and American poetry in the tradition of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, and prose works on the nature of what Douglas Sloan has called ¿Insight and Imagination.¿ Attentional exercises will provide first-hand
experience
of students' own capacities for "insight-imagination." Students will keep a journal monitoring their experience with the exercises and will also write essays on course themes.
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, and
Martin Buber.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Prerequisite: ENGL201 or another college-level course in poetry. No preference to majors and does NOT fulfill any of the English departmental requirements.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
ENGL201
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Hughes,Gertrude Reif
- Times: ..T.R.. 09:00AM-10:20AM; Location: FISK412;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 25)
- SR. major: 0 Jr. major: 0
- SR. non-major: 25 Jr. non-major: 0 SO: 0 FR: X
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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