ENG 7365 Modern Poetry
A consideration of major British and American poets of the first half of the twentieth-century, in the light of theoretical articulations of modernist poetry, as well as the poetic experimentation that accompanied them. The historical contexts of modernism – the two World Wars and the profound cultural upheavals surrounding them – are also elements of critical reflection. Pound and Eliot are foremost in this generation as theorists and innovators, but other poets participate distinctively in a heightened self-consciousness of language and form – Yeats, Frost, Williams, Moore, H.D., Stevens, Lawrence, and Auden.