LIT 4033 Spring 2020 Gardner

This course will familiarize the student with important works of poetry from the High Modernist period—that is, poetry produced in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, generally associated with the free verse movement. It will include such writers as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, HD and Stein, and it will take on the principal techniques, themes and values of this innovative period. In addition to reading, discussing and writing about a variety of relevant texts, students will each choose a poet or topic on which to concentrate.