Poets: Dickinson/Heaney

Fall 2012

Poets: Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney

Listed in: English, as ENGL-442

Faculty

David R. Sofield (Section 01)

Description

A seminar devoted to the work of an eclectic list of poets active from the 1850s to the 2010s:  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, T.S. Eliot, Robert Francis, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, James Merrill, and Seamus Heaney.

Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, with preference to junior English majors.  Although an English Department seminar, students not majoring in English are welcome.  Limited to 15 students.  Fall semester.  Professor Sofield and Simpson Lecturer Wilbur.

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