BASC50109 - Poets of Modern Reality: T. S. Eliot and Hart Crane

Course Description

T. S. Eliot famously proclaimed that poetry in the modern period had to be difficult. “The poet must become more and more comprehensive,” he wrote, “more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into his meaning.” (“The Metaphysical Poets,” in Selected Prose, p. 65) This course is intended as an exploration of the idea of that the difficulty of modern poetry is the difficulty of modern reality—i.e., the difficulty of grasping that reality in both its complexity and its indeterminacy—through a close reading of representative works—both poetry and prose. Course Syllabus.

Notes

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