Literature 210 - Modern American Poets

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Bard College

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The triumph of the first great modernist pioneers in English (Yeats, Pound, Eliot) created a schism in American poetry, dividing poets and their readers into distinctive camps. Soon a modernist canon emerged, and it is now generally accepted that the greatest of these, in addition to the pioneers, are Wallace Stevens, who experimented with a poetry of linguistic event and philosophic meditation; Marianne Moore, whose aesthetic meditations in syllabic verse helped to move poetic discourse toward prose; and William Carlos Williams, who straddled both camps, experimenting with new kinds of rhythm closer to American speech. All three share a concern with visual art, and many of their best poems prefigure a fixation on painting, film, and photography in American poetry today. Readings include Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, W. H. Auden, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, Robert Duncan, James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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