You can read the “Love” of this course’s title as an adjective, noun, or imperative verb: we are going to deepen our love of poetry by studying the poetry of love written across time periods (from antiquity to the present) and global cultures: from Sappho and Horace to Rita Dove and Lisa Russ Spaar. We will be looking closely at how poems work -- how they accomplish their particular magic – while also thinking about the varieties of love and the complexities each offers to language and to art. Daily writing and small group conversation, occasional larger group meetings where you will be called on to speak, two formal papers, and a concluding exercise.
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ENGL 2506
MoTuWeThFr 10:30am - 12:45pm