2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENG 317, 318 - Lyric Traditions

1 course unit
The course starts with forms and kinds of lyric poetry written before 1800 and then invites class members to consider how selected poets of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries rework and reinvent these traditions.  We will learn about various lyric traditions by experimenting with writing as well as reading them.  Students can expect to read poems by John Donne, Shakespeare, George Herbert, and Andrew Marvell, and poems by Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, Hart Crane, Adrienne Rich, and others.
Meets departmental Genealogies approach.
Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 318.



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