ENGL-261 20th Century Women Poets

ENGL-261 20th Century Women Poets

Fall only

Faculty:

Rifkin, Libbie

In this class we'll examine the writing lives of selected 20th century women poets who played significant roles in shaping the literary fields in which they worked. Specifically, we'll be studying poets who doubled as editors, critics, publishers, as well as canon- and scene-makers. We will read closely the careers of four major figures--Marianne Moore, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, and Alice Notley--but we will not be limited to single authors. Rather we will broaden our sense of both literature and literary history by studying networks of cultural workers. We will have particularly rich connections to explore during the two periods in which women wielded the most power to create the conditions for their own writing and its reception: Modernism (1910-30), and the re-emergence of women's poetic communities as second wave feminism made its mark in the 70s and 80s.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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