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Modern Poetry
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· New Haven, USA
About this course
This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. Authors studied include Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost, with additional lectures on World War One poetry, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. The course employs diverse methods of literary criticism, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism.
Prerequisite Skills
Skills you should have before taking this course
Basic literary analysis
English reading comprehension
Poetry fundamentals
Skills Gained
Skills you will develop by completing this course
Literary criticism
Modern poetry analysis
Close reading
Historical literary analysis
Biographical criticism
Gender criticism
Poetry of World War I
Harlem Renaissance literature