English 24

Other Readings and Media

Kinzie, M: A Poet?s Guide to Poetry; Photocopied Reader

Description

In this seminar, we will consider what nineteenth-century British and American poets have to say (issues of self, desire, pleasure, memory, freedom, faith, beauty, nature, and nation, among others) and how they say these things (features of line, syntax, diction, trope, meter, rhyme, and form). We will read a range of poets, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Browning, Arnold, Melville, Rossetti, and Hopkins.