ENGL 265-01, Twentieth-Century american Women's Poetry, Spring 1999

Abstract

This course will explore how a gendered perspective on reading and writing poetry might deepen our understanding of the forms and functions of a poetic response. We will contextualize our study through reading a number of essays. Although we will move back and forth between periods, as a general approach we will begin by readings poets of the modernist period, then poetry written postwar(s), and finally we’ll conclude by reading contemporary work by writers whose reputations have developed more recently.