Modern Poetry.

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General course in English language poetry written in the late 19th and early 20th century poetry, a period of great innovation in poetry. It focuses on approach: what is the modern poem and how does one read it? Emphasis is placed on the function of image, voice, line break, rhythm, etc. Writers might include Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Hardy, and Hopkins.