Modern British Poetry Reading Schedule

All the poems are from the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, except those by T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. Individual poems will be discussed in the forums under their titles, but students are expected to read all the poems by each individual author listed below. (In many cases, this is just a few poems.) We will discuss the poets and their poems in the order given in the below schedule.

The online week for this class is Monday through Sunday.

Week One

Eliot’s, The Waste Land

Week Two

Hardy, Yeats, Lawrence, Sassoon, Owen, Sitwell

Week Three

Eliot, Selected Poems.

Week Four

Smith, Betjeman, Auden, Selected Poems.

Week Five

Auden, Selected Poems

Week Six

Auden, Selected Poems.

Week Seven

Hughes, Heaney, Thomas, Larkin

Week Eight

Selected poems assigned by the professor and announced through the discussion forums on Moodle.