Title:
Modern Poetry (Spring, 2007)Lecture 1 - Introduction
Speaker:
Professor Hammer
Subject:
poems, Blast, Broom, and The Criterion
Area:
English / Writing / Rhetoric
Type of school:
university
School name:
yale
Country:
United States
Course language:
English (United States)
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
Contributor:
jakob sandvad
Comments:
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Overview:
Professor Hammer introduces students to the material that will be covered in the course of the semester. Course readings and requirements are also addressed. Early publications of poems are discussed as they appeared in small magazines such as Blast, Broom, and The Criterion. Book publication of the same poems and other poetry collections are then discussed in contrast. A number of modern English poets are presented such as Eliot, Hughes, Moore, Yeats, and photographs are shown in order to introduce students to the major poets of the early twentieth century.
Reading assignment:
None assigned
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Resources:
Handout 1: Introduction [text]