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ENGL269
Poetry and Insight
ENGL269 SP
| Section | Class Size | *Available | Times | POI | Prereq |
|---|
| 1 | 25 | 5 | Times: M.W.... 1:10PM-2:30PM; | No | Yes |
*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for
the Blue Add phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous
phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration.
(Last Updated on Tue Aug 10 05:00:21 EDT 1999
)
In this course we will cultivate the capacity to think like
a poet. We will school ourselves in a poet's ways of seeing
and knowing by studying the world of imagination where
poetry thrives. Taking our direction from Blake, Wordsworth,
and Coleridge we will read a selection of British and
American poetry. We will also read essays on the nature of
imagination and on cultivating a consciousness capable of
insight. Attentional exercises, introduced each week and
repeated for practice, will provide first-hand experience
with what has been called "insight imagination." Students
will keep a notebook monitoring their experiences with the
exercises and they will write three papers concerning poetry
and insight--the first, a cultural treatment of one of our
topics; the second, a political treatment; the third, a
personal one.
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: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL
Prerequisites:
ENGL201
- Section 01
- Hughes, G
- Times: M.W.... 1:10PM- 2:30PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 2, Fr: 0
- No Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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