Major poets
Bachelor's degree
In Maynard (USA)
Description
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Maynard (USA)
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This subject is an introduction to poetry as a genre; most of our texts are originally written in English. We read poems from the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries, Romanticism, and Modernism. Focus will be on analytic reading, on literary history, and on the development of the genre and its forms; in writing we attend to techniques of persuasion and of honest evidenced sequential argumentation. Poets to be read will include William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and some contemporary writers.
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Subjects
- Poems
- Writing
Course programme
A list of topics covered in the course is presented in the calendar below.
Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
No late papers. This rule follows from the shape of knowledge in the field; poets read other poets, and poems follow from and speak back (and forward) to other poems. Late papers, or papers out of sequence, violate this rhythm of intertextuality.
Because one cannot authentically participate with the skills of a discussion or of a listener without being present, let's assume that anyone who misses more than a class-meeting or two will be asked to drop the subject.
This subject is one that fulfills the Communication Intensive (CI) requirements. All students must take one CI subject in each of their four undergraduate years: two CI subjects as part of their HASS requirement and two CI subjects as Part of their undergraduate program. In this class, requirements will be satisfied by:
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Plagiarism--the use of another's intellectual work without acknowledgement--is a serious offense. It is the policy of the Literature Faculty that students who plagiarize will receive an F in the subject, and that the professor will forward the case to the Committee on Discipline. Full acknowledgement for all information received from sources outside the classroom must be clearly stated in all written work submitted. All ideas, arguments, and direct phrasings from someone else's work must be identified and properly footnoted. Quotations from other sources must be clearly marked as distinct from the student's own work. For further guidance on the proper forms of attribution, consult the style guides available on the Writing and Communication Center and the MIT Web site on Plagiarism.
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Major poets