Course Outline

Course Title: Modern Poetry

Course Code: ENG-605

Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents / Core Texts

T. S. Eliot

• The Hollow Men
• The Waste Land
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Ezra Pound

• In a Station of the Metro
• A Girl
• An Immortality

W. B. Yeats

• Among School Children
• The Second Coming
• Easter 1916

W. H. Auden

• September 1st, 1939
• As I Walked Out One Morning
• The Unknown Citizen

Ted Hughes

• That Morning
• Hawk Roosting
• The Thought-Fox
• Hawk’s Monologue

Philip Larkin

• Mr. Bleaney
• Church Going

Course Outcomes

By the end of the course, students are expected:
✔ To demonstrate an understanding of the aesthetics of modernist poetry.
✔ To critically analyze poems through close reading of the text.

Recommended Books

• Blair, John G. The Poetic Art of W.H. Auden (n.p., n.d.).
• Drew, Elizabeth. T.S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry (London, 1950).
• Gardener, Helen. The Art of T.S. Eliot (London, 1968).
• Jeffares, A.N. W.B. Yeats, Man and Poet (London, 1949).
• Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry (London, 1961 ed.).
• MacNeice, Louis. The Poetry of W.B. Yeats (London, 1967).
• Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden (New Jersey, 1981).
• Unterecker, J. W.B. Yeats: A Reader’s Guide (London, 1988).
• Ferguson, M., Salter, M. J., & Stallworthy, J. (2005). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
• Untermeyer, L. (2011). Modern British Poetry. Whitefish.