LIT 2030 Spring 2018 Ringleb

This course is an introduction to poetic traditions through close, craft-based readings. We’ll trace the major poetic forms, genres, and movements from the third century BC to the present moment, contextualizing a variety of poems in terms of the social environments in which they were written. Because of this scope, readings may include work from Theocritus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Matsuo Bashō, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Federico García Lorca, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Frank Bidart, Rita Dove, and Sherman Alexie.