Literature 2235 - Philosophies of Poetry from Plato to Dada

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Bard College

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Like most Enlightenment and Romantic writers on aesthetics, Kant and Hegel considered poetry the highest of all arts. Plato, on the other hand, was famously hostile to poetry. Poetry and philosophy have often been at odds with one another, and yet Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed that "philosophy ought only to be written as a form of poetry." This course explores the place of poetry in culture and in philosophy from classical Greece to the historical avant-garde. Students examine the nature of poetry and poetics, as well as literary criticism as it relates to poetry. Readings include selections fromAristotle, Plato, Longinus, Horace, Sidney, Puttenham, Milton, Pope, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Schlegel, Novalis,Hegel, Blake,Rimbaud, Shelley,Mallarmé, Dickinson, Lautréamont, Marinetti, Pound, Tzara, Loy, and Wittgenstein.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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