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Modern Poetry

Langdon Hammer · Yale University

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About

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.

Lectures

  1. Introduction Lecture 1 · Audio
  2. Robert Frost Lecture 2 · Audio
  3. Robert Frost (cont.) Lecture 3 · Audio
  4. William Butler Yeats Lecture 4 · Audio
  5. William Butler Yeats (cont.) Lecture 5 · Audio
  6. William Butler Yeats (cont.) Lecture 6 · Audio
  7. World War I Poetry in England Lecture 7 · Audio
  8. Imagism Lecture 8 · Audio
  9. Ezra Pound Lecture 9 · Audio
  10. T.S. Eliot Lecture 10 · Audio
  11. T.S. Eliot (cont.) Lecture 11 · Audio
  12. T.S. Eliot (cont.) Lecture 12 · Audio
  13. Hart Crane Lecture 13 · Audio
  14. Hart Crane (cont.) Lecture 14 · Audio
  15. Langston Hughes Lecture 15 · Audio
  16. William Carlos Williams Lecture 16 · Audio
  17. Marianne Moore Lecture 17 · Audio
  18. Marianne Moore (cont.) Lecture 18 · Audio
  19. Wallace Stevens Lecture 19 · Audio
  20. Wallace Stevens (cont.) Lecture 20 · Audio
  21. Wallace Stevens (cont.) Lecture 21 · Audio
  22. W. H. Auden Lecture 22 · Audio
  23. W. H. Auden (cont.) Lecture 23 · Audio
  24. Elizabeth Bishop Lecture 24 · Audio
  25. Elizabeth Bishop (cont.) Lecture 25 · Audio

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Institution
Yale University
Department
English
Teacher
Langdon Hammer
Term
Spring 2007
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Literature and writing
Source
Open Yale Courses
Licence
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