ENG342L - Contemporary English and American Poetry

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
Reading and discussion of poets who have come into prominence since World War II: Brooks, Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Hughes, Rich, Tomlinson, and others. Attention is given to developments in form and to important postwar movements, such as the Beats and the Confessionals, as well as to attitudes and themes that give significance to the term “contemporary.”