Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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In response to demand from previous students, this new course will continue the discussion of poetic style, covering the music of poetry, verse forms, allusion, how to decide what to focus on and the function of such criticism as this. Exploring a wide chronological range of poetry, we will learn about the contexts which give rise to the often baffling poetic experiments of our own postmodernist era. Many relevant cultural issues—class, religion, gender, nationality, the role of the academy and so on--will be addressed as they come up. The chief concern, however, will be to respect for the poet’s words above all others.