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ENG 661B

Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Standard

Overview

Description

Readings in such poets as Auden, Eliot, Frost, Thomas, Stevens, Yeats, Williams.

Units

Lecture3

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Offering

Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

Terms

spring

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
  • analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
  • articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to poems using literary-critical vocabulary.
  • evaluate the formal and thematic elements of modern British and American poems.
  • synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic and literary works in written work and class presentations.