ENG-4005 Modern British and American Poetry

This course investigates important British, Anglo-Irish, and American poets of the twentieth century, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, Edith Sitwell, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams and Gwendolyn Brooks. Students learn to identify major modern poetic styles and themes.