ENG 390 - British Poetry Since 1900

This course will focus on poetry written in Britain since 1900, with emphasis on such questions as the development of modernism, poetic forms and strategies, links to political and cultural developments, and new forms and strategies after modernism. The course will usually focus on three or four specific poets read against a broader poetic and historical context. Poets may include T. S. Eliot, Hugh MacDiarmid, D. H. Lawrence, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, Maeve McGuckian, or writers associated with the “New British Poetries.”

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Credits: 3

Course Typically Offered: Variable
Course Type: English