23-112 HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY (NEW)

23-112 HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY (NEW)

Randy Greene, Fridays, 10 am to 12 noon

Cactus Room: February 17, 24, March 10, 17, 24, 31 (No class on March 3^rd)

This course is designed to give students an overview of the history of English poetry from its origins in Old English to the modern world The outstanding characteristics and representative poets from each era will be discussed.  For those students who took Introduction to Poetry, the Vendler text (Poets, Poems and Poetry, second edition) has most of the poems we will discuss.  For those who don’t have the book, I recommend any comprehensive anthology of English poetry although the Vendler book is available inexpensively (used) and has lots of valuable discussion.