Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
The goal of this course is to introduce some of the main trends and movements in American poetry over the last hundred years through detailed readings of poems by over forty American poets, and to give students the opportunity to understand poetry through writing critical papers and imitative poems.
能力項目說明
Students will be introduced to the main trends and movements in American poetry over the last hundred years, and become better readers and writers.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
first class: introduction to class, historical background
second class: T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams
third class: Wallace Stevens, Melvin B. Tolson, Marianne Moore
fourth class: Hart Crane, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings
fifth class: John Berryman, Elizabth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden
sixth class: Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, H.D.
seventh class: Stanley Kunitz, Donald Justice, Charles Olson, John Crowe Ransom
eighth class: Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Wendell Berry
ninth class: Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich
tenth class: Marilyn Hacker, Thomas McGrath, Charles Bukowski
eleventh class: John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Tom Clark
twelfth class: Jack Gilbert, Richard Jones, Robert Creeley
thirteenth class: Robert Bly, Gregory Orr, James Wright, A.R. Ammons
fourteenth class: James Tate, Mark Strand, William Matthews, Charles Wright
fifteenth class: Louise Gluck, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, Michael Palmer
sixteenth class: C.K. Williams, John Latta, Campbell McGrath, Melissa Green
final exam
Attendance and preparation for class are required. A final exam, a critical paper, and two creative works will count toward students' final grades.