EGL 246 - Modern Poetry

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) (Offered twice every four years) Selected poetry from the high modern period (from the turn of the twentieth century to circa 1945) in relation to changing views of the poet’s role in culture and the poet’s contradictory posture as prophet, exile, romantic, outcast. Authors will include W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, others. Prerequisite(s): EGL 100 or EGL 101 or EGL 102 or a grade of 5 on the AP English Literature or Language test. CC: HUL, HUM