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Poetry and Insight
ENGL269 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 tish 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 ts? 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

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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