English 366 - Modern Poetry

Fall
2026
01
3.00
Ruth Jennison

TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM

UMass Amherst
19418
South College Room W205
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

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