Description: Critical exploration into the sound and sense of verse in English, from is traditional forms (e.g. the sonnet, villanelle and sestina) to more recent styles (e.g. free verse, experimental and avant grade poetry). Special attention to the devices of meter, rhyme, rhetoric and wordplay will enhance students' understanding of the complementary relationship between poetic content (what a poem says) and form (how it is said).

Resources: OpenCourseware from Yale, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Husson along with many of the World's finest University's.

Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams, Default Professor

Units: 1