CW 210 - Form in Poetry

Institution:

Roger Williams University

Subject:

CREATIVE WRITING

Description:

Fulfills a course requirement in the Creative Writing Core ConcentrationThis foundation course is a critical study of the essential poetic forms(villanelle, sonnet, sestina, etc.) and how the forms relate to thecontemporary voice through critical reading of established writersand appropriate texts. Through both seminars and writing workshops,the class combines the critical study of published writing and thedevelopment of student work to learn how form and the historyof form creates the basis for all poetry. Students will be exposedto essential works by writers such as John Berryman, ElizabethBishop, T.S. Elliot, Phillip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, FrankO'Hara, Theodore Roethke, and William Carlos Williams. Creativeexpectations are no more than three revised poems that fully reflectthe focused study of the course.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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