Course title

British and American Poetry

Instructor

Peng Yu

Instructor’s profile

Pro. Peng Yu earned his Ph.D. in literature from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests are American poetry and literary translation.

Course goals

The course aims to heighten students' understanding and appreciation of poetic works.

Topics

This is a course in British and American poetry, with emphasis on the successful poems of established poets such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Keats, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath.

Assessment

Class presentation

Final term paper

Reference books

Cleanth Brooks & Robert Penn Warren, 2004. Understanding Poetry. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Peng Yu, 1995. American Poetry of the Twentieth Century. Henan University Press.

Working language

English

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