English 366 - Modern Poetry
Fall
2024
01
3.00
Ruth Jennison
M W 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
35280
South College Room W201
ruthj@english.umass.edu
Examination of some of the major poems written in America, England and Ireland from the beginning of World War I to the end of World War II. Poets vary; usually include Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Eliot, Pound, H.D., Hart, Crane, Langston Hughes, Cummings, Jeffers, and Wilfred Owen. Background lectures in the poetry of Dickinson, Whitman, Hopkins, Hardy, and Robinson.
CW Gen Ed