HMS-410A Modern Poetry

3 Credits

This course focuses on key poets of the early 20th Century instrumental in setting the course for modern poetry, and who continue to influence contemporary poetry. Students read essays and poetry by Stéphan Mallarmé, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Mina Loy, HD and André Breton and will consider the question: What makes a poem modern? Features of modern poetry will be explored in the work of such post-WWII poets as Frank O’Hara and Harryette Mullen. Students will hand in short weekly responses and one longer essay.