Spring 2006 - Graduate Course Description

NAME OF
Cohen M
INSTRUCTOR:
DISCIPLINE AND
HUSL 6308 SECTION: 001
NUMBER:
DAY: T TIME: 12:30pm - 3:15pm
Studies-Literary Forms, Genres: Am. Poetry
COURSE TITLE:
Since World War Ii

DESCRIPTION OF COURSE:

This seminar surveys the rich outpouring of American poetry since the Second
World War. Among the styles and schools to be included are: the confessional
poets, the Beats, "abstract" and concrete poetry, feminist, ethnic, socio-
political, and environmentalist poetry.

We shall sample the work of many poets, but we'll pay special attention to
Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, Alan Ginsberg, John
Ashbery, Galway Kinnel, Adrienne Rich, and Sylvia Plath. Students can
supplement our "canon" with poets they especially like in classes set aside for
that purpose and in the oral reports.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

anthology t.b.a.
Robert Lowell, Selected Poems (Noonday Press)
Sylvia Plath, Ariel (HarperCollins)
Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton)
Galway Kinnell, A New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin)

COURSE REQUIREMENTS/EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Students will present an oral report (ca. 30-45 minutes) and write a term paper
of about 15 pages.
Class participation is important.

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