REL 19.37 After the Fall: The Faith of Modernist Poets

This course will offer an in-depth examination of the creative impulses, as well as psychic anxiety, unleashed in certain Modernist poets by World War One, as well as the prefigurations of war found in some earlier poets. Poets to be examined include W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, and Christina Rossetti. This course will involve in-depth discussion, extensive reading, weekly written reflections, and a comprehensive final exam.

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