ENG 317, 318 - Lyric Traditions

Course unit(s): 1
Meets requirement: W when offered as 318
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. Satisfies departmental Poetry requirement.