English 53. Poets: Four poets, English and Irish: Shakespeare, Marvell, Keats, Heaney

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2017

Course Site
Tuesday, 2:00 to 4:00  | Location: Barker 211

Shakespeare’s inventive sonnets; Marvell’s provocative and enigmatic poems; Keats’s revisionary sonnets and Odes; Heaney’s poems of modern Ireland. Lyric genres and subgenres: sonnet, ode, complaint, verse-letter, persona-poem, definition-poem, myths of origin, the lyric narrative, political poetry, etc.