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The class offers a critical interpretation of poetry written before, during, and after World War I as well as contemporary theories of poetry. On the one hand, we will explore what constitutes its “modernist” innovations and, on the other, trace relations to the Romantic and Victorian heritage. The seminar will focus on the poetry of 3 canonical modernist poets: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. In order to investigate the variety of the poetry of that period we will also study a selection of texts by D.H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others.The Lektürekurs is designed as a close reading of additional modernist poetry.A reader with all the texts will be available at the beginning of the summer term. |
