# Modern Poetry

- Institution: Yale University
- Department: English
- Teacher: Langdon Hammer
- Term: Spring 2007
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Literature and writing
- Source: [Open Yale Courses](https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310#syllabus)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/1cd5ed78211a) (Audio)
2. [Robert Frost](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/576d55fe11d8) (Audio)
3. [Robert Frost (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/4dea82331a2e) (Audio)
4. [William Butler Yeats](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/5e7aa2468ae2) (Audio)
5. [William Butler Yeats (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/95a775839917) (Audio)
6. [William Butler Yeats (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/5351690f46b4) (Audio)
7. [World War I Poetry in England](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/81ce14aca08a) (Audio)
8. [Imagism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/3816728ca029) (Audio)
9. [Ezra Pound](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/e8994d66e793) (Audio)
10. [T.S. Eliot](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/d693bb82d7c1) (Audio)
11. [T.S. Eliot (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/2f0c8dda40ac) (Audio)
12. [T.S. Eliot (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/905c7f07b528) (Audio)
13. [Hart Crane](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/d79fb3f4e09b) (Audio)
14. [Hart Crane (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/51c6872e3716) (Audio)
15. [Langston Hughes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/727c679c9560) (Audio)
16. [William Carlos Williams](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/9a07318ce201) (Audio)
17. [Marianne Moore](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/e5a44bfcc398) (Audio)
18. [Marianne Moore (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/dacaf7765f7f) (Audio)
19. [Wallace Stevens](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/5e5d70e576a6) (Audio)
20. [Wallace Stevens (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/5ff85b2c3fa3) (Audio)
21. [Wallace Stevens (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/d6c0892e9ae5) (Audio)
22. [W. H. Auden](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/c3a256351772) (Audio)
23. [W. H. Auden (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/fbbc25f275b5) (Audio)
24. [Elizabeth Bishop](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/4edae928c9ae) (Audio)
25. [Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/engl-310/6d5c55a07b6b) (Audio)