Modern Poetry with Professor Langdon Hammer

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism.

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1. Introduction

2. Robert Frost

3. Robert Frost (cont.)

4. William Butler Yeats

5. William Butler Yeats (cont.)

6. William Butler Yeats (cont.)

7. World War I Poetry in England

8. Imagism

9. Ezra Pound

10. T.S. Eliot

11. T.S. Eliot (cont.)

12. T.S. Eliot (cont.)

13. Hart Crane

14. Hart Crane (cont.)

15. Langston Hughes

16. William Carlos Williams

17. Marianne Moore

18. Marianne Moore (cont.)

19. Wallace Stevens

20. Wallace Stevens (cont.)

21. Wallace Stevens (cont.)

22. W.H. Auden

23. W.H. Auden (cont.)

24. Elizabeth Bishop

25. Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)

Final Exam