Date: January 30, 2009
Format: MP3
In A Way with Words I, II, and III, Professor Michael D.C. Drout increased listeners' understanding of the way literature works, of the rhetoric that in many ways defines people's lives, and of the intricacies of grammar, all while maintaining a lively tone that conveys the professor's infectious enthusiasm for the subject.
In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future. Addressing such poetic luminaries as Milton,Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, these lectures explain in simple terms what poetry is while following its development through the centuries.
Course Syllabus
What Is Poetry?
Oral Tradition
The Roots of the Tree: Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Of Meters and of Rhyming Craftily: Middle English and the
Development of Rhymed Poetry
Early Renaissance: An Exploration of Form
Metaphysicals, Milton
The Hard Stuff: The Eighteenth Century and the Influence of
Classical Leaing
Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge
Later Romantics: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Victorians!
American Poetry and the Development of Free Verse
Modeism
Late Modeism
Poetry Now
Format: MP3
In A Way with Words I, II, and III, Professor Michael D.C. Drout increased listeners' understanding of the way literature works, of the rhetoric that in many ways defines people's lives, and of the intricacies of grammar, all while maintaining a lively tone that conveys the professor's infectious enthusiasm for the subject.
In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future. Addressing such poetic luminaries as Milton,Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, these lectures explain in simple terms what poetry is while following its development through the centuries.
Course Syllabus
What Is Poetry?
Oral Tradition
The Roots of the Tree: Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Of Meters and of Rhyming Craftily: Middle English and the
Development of Rhymed Poetry
Early Renaissance: An Exploration of Form
Metaphysicals, Milton
The Hard Stuff: The Eighteenth Century and the Influence of
Classical Leaing
Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge
Later Romantics: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Victorians!
American Poetry and the Development of Free Verse
Modeism
Late Modeism
Poetry Now