The Person in the Poem

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Through the study of a wide variety of poems from the Renaissance to the present, students in this seminar will expand their familiarity with modern English-language poetry and will develop a understanding of fundamental poetic concepts—especially those concepts related to the question of “the person in the poem”: “author,” “voice,” “persona,” “address,” “personification,” “representation,” and “referentiality.” See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.