ENGL - 3123 Modern American Poetry: Voices and Visions (3)

An introductory literature course emphasizing relationships of the poets, their influence on each other and on those who followed them, and their place in American literature. Compares and contrasts the American vernacular voice with modern European idiom, the democratic image of society with the poet as a privileged visionary, and the poetry of social conscience with a poetry of metaphysical rumination. Equivalent to ENGL-420.