ENG 363LEC
Modernist Poetry

Examination of modernist poetry, with attention to individual poets and to modernist thought. Poets may include Yeats, Stein, Loy, Pound, Williams, H.D., Moore, Stevens, Toomer, Crane, and Hughes, among others. For example: Prof. Stacy Hubbard, Poetry and the isms of Modernism This course will explore British, Irish and American poetry written between 1890 and 1940. We will read poetry in a wide variety of styles and modes, as well as essays and manifestoes that debate what poetry has been in the past and what it ought to be and do in the twentieth century and beyond. Modernism is full of isms: symbolism, imagism, futurism, classicism, nationalism, feminism, vernacularism, regionalism, socialism, etc. We'll explore what these various movements were all about, and why poets in this period felt compelled to join coteries, formulate systematic methods, start their own journals, and work at either restricting or broadening the audience for poetry. We'll also look into the many experimental little magazines that rose up around modernism, and visit the university's superb poetry archives in order to examine some of these.

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