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2020-21 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-21 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EN 641 British and American Poetry


A survey of the thematic and formal developments in British and American poetry from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Readings include theoretical essays by some modernists. The course approaches poems in their historical and cultural contexts before considering contributions of individual figures.