Spring 2009

Reading Poetry

Listed in: English, as ENGL-12

Faculty

Howell D. Chickering (Section 01)
David R. Sofield (Section 02)

Description

(ENGL-12-01) A first course in the critical reading of selected major British and American poets. Attention will be given to prosody and poetic forms, and to different ways of reading poems. We will read poetry by William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Philip Larkin. Three class hours per week. Professor Chickering. (ENGL-12-02) A first course in the critical reading of twelve English, Irish, and American poets: Donne, Herbert, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Bishop, Larkin, and Heaney. Attention will be given to the careers of the poets, as well as to individual poems. Both poems and poets will be read in the light of two principal contexts: (1) The cultural moments in which poets write their poems, and (2) The continuing history of poetic style, as each writer responds to his or her predecessors. There will be a final paper on a book published recently. Limited to 35 students. Professor Sofield. Spring semester.

ENGL 12 - L/D

Section 01
M 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM JOCH 21
W 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM JOCH 21
F 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM JOCH 21

Section 02
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM WEBS 220
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM WEBS 220

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022