OFPOETRY - Make It New: American Modernist Poetry
Course Description
Explore a diverse array of poets andpoems from the modernist movement,
1910 to the mid-1940s, a time when
poetry took a distinctive break from past
traditions and forms. Our poets include
Robert Frost, the quintessential New
England poet; The Chicago modernists,
Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg;
the allusive and surrealist T.S. Eliot;
the exuberant and liberating New York
modernists, Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Dorothy Parker, and Hart Crane; poets
of scientific rigor, Marianne Moore, and
William Carlos Williams; and the poets
of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston
Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude
McKay. All these poets followed the
modernist imperative to “Make it new”.
Enjoy discovering their diverse styles,
subjects, and emotions. There will also
be opportunities to discover your own
style and write a poem to share with the
class!
Notes
Instructors: Darlene Reeves and Pam FreshneyEnglish Proficiency Requirements
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