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.