Modern Poetry

• Author: Langdon Hammer
• Subject: Humanities
• Institution Name: Yale University
• Collection: Open Yale Courses
• Grade Level: Post-secondary

• Abstract: This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism.

• Course Type: Full Course
• Languages: English
• Material Types: Lecture Notes, Syllabi, Assessments, Audio Lectures, Video Lectures
• Media Formats: Audio, Downloadable docs, Text/HTML, Video

• Conditions of Use: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0