EGL 246 - Modern Poetry

Course Units: 1.0

(Not Offered this Academic Year) 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): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM