ENG 21300 Contemporary Poetry Honors

Students will examine the wide spectrum of poetry, including Modernists poets such as W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein to the more Contemporary poets such as Dana Gioia, Lyn Hejinian, and Leonard Bernstein. Readings in literary history and criticism will be used to supplement discussion of the course texts. Students will engage in original research and write several essays.