English 777 - Modern Poetry
Spring
2026
01
3.00
Ruth Jennison
M 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
84237
South College Room E370
ruthj@english.umass.edu
The growth and development of modern poetry in English from 1912 to WWII, including Yeats, Stevens, Frost, Eliot, Pound, Williams; also Cummings, L. Hughes, Moore, Ransom, Auden, Crane, Robinson. Brief background materials from Hopkins, Dickinson and Hardy.
Open to Graduate students only.