30.371 Twentieth-Century British Poetry

A survey of British poetry from the Edwardian and Georgian periods and the First World War, to modernism and the Movement poets, and then to postmodernism and postcolonialism. Poetry to be studied may be by such writers as Hardy, Kipling, Thomas, Mew, Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg, Yeats, Hulme, Eliot, Loy, Daryush, Auden, MacNiece, Thomas, Larkin, Gunn, Hughes, Leonard, Raine, Harrison, Feinstein, Adcock, Boland, Shapcott, Duffy, Riley, Heaney, Mahon, Muldoon, Johnson, Nichols, Zephania, and Alvi.

3 lecture hours per week, one term.

Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in first-year English literature (ENGL) or permission of Instructor.