ENG 3680 - Contemporary Poetry

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University of North Carolina at Pembroke

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A critical study of selected works of poetry from post-World War II to the present, covering American, British, and World writers representing the stylistic, thematic, and cultural diversity so apparent in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century poetry. The course examines contemporary poetry in relation to social and cultural contexts, with particular attention to modernism, postmodernism, and new forms and modes of expression. Poets studied may include John Ashbery, A.R. Ammons, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Rita Dove, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: ENG 3040 or permission of instructor.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uncp.edu

Phone Number:

(910) 521-6000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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