English
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About the Department
The Department of English at Yale teaches the majority of freshmen in Yale College and graduates more than 100 English majors in every Yale class. Undergraduate courses are designed to develop students' understanding of important works of English, American, and other literatures in English and to provide historical perspectives from which to read and analyze these works. At the graduate level, the department offers a broad range of courses that engage all the traditional chronological periods of British literature, American literature since its inception, and many of the contemporary interdisciplines. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/english/ |
Courses
ENGL 310 - Modern Poetry This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism ... more >> |
