The Craft of Poetry: Form and Revision

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Overview

Subject area

ENG

Catalog Number

3645

Course Title

The Craft of Poetry: Form and Revision

Department(s)

Description

This is a course about form in poetry - from the line to the stanza and beyond. Students write and rewrite their poems, experimenting with freer and set forms such as sonnets, villanelles, and haiku, studying and emulating poems by writers like Dove, Bly, Hopkins, Kinnell, Shakespeare, Simic, Yeats, and Whitman. Each class will center on student readings and critiques. Regular conferences.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Requisites

022802

Course Schedule