ENGLISH 357: Poetry, Transhistorically

Course Description

The course considers representative works by ten poets from the Renaissance to the present. Each set of poems is framed by a problem in poetics discussed in recent theory, such as artifice and sound, the making of voice, the meaning of lyric, and the nature of historicist and biographical interpretation. Conversation in the seminar will move from particular poems to general problems and back again, according to the priorities of the members.