HUM 390: Topics in Humanities 1 to

Course Description

Three Writers, Three Worlds: The Poetry of Eliot, Cesaire and Neruda.
This course offers upper division students an intensive study of the works and lives of three poets who are considered among the greatest in their respective cultures and in the world: Pablo Neruda, Aime Cesaire, and T. S. Eliot. This will be an exploration of the artistic and aesthetic sensibilities of these poets, their development as intellectuals, the experiences that shaped their worldviews, and their engagement with significant historic movements or moments of the 20th Century.