Literature Majors Seminar
Term 1
Th, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
This seminar will introduce students to early twentieth-century American poetics. It will read the period’s poetry in terms of both its formal experimentation and its political radicalism. The course will survey the works of both canonical figures, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and H.D., and less canonical figures such as African American poets Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay and political poets such as Alice Duer Miller, “Anise,” and Muriel Rukeyser. Students will have an opportunity to give oral presentations about particular poets and to write research essays on topics of their own choosing.
