NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 二十世紀美國詩選(6048)
(Eng.) Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher JUDY,RONALD
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Graduate Language English Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description This course is a survey of US 20th century poetry in English for graduate students.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
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Discussion
Lecturing
Written Presentation
Oral Presentation
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 {02/18} Poetry (UP): Introduction p1-16; handouts
Week 2 {02/25} Altieri, 1-10; UP: R. Frost; L. Hughes; Jesse James (17-23); handout: Ezra Pound
Week 3 {03/04} Altieri, 11-28 (Bergson & Pound); UP, 68-75
Week 4 {03/11} Altieri, 29-51 (Imagism); Pound, Williams, H.D.
Week 5 {03/18} Altieri, 52-68 (Lacan); Eliot’s ”The Waste Land”
Week 6 {03/25} Altieri, 68-96; the Poetics of Impersonality - Eliot, Loy, Moore
Week 7 {04/01} Altieri, 96-125; Williams, Oppen, Hughes (handout)
Week 8 {04/08} Altieri Chpt 5; Wallace Stevens(handout)
Week 9 {04/15}Altieri Chpt 5; Wallace Stevens/W.H. Auden
Week 10 {04/22} MIDTERM Roundtable
Week 11 {04/29} Altieri, 157-171: Robert Lowell (UP 39), Elizabeth Bishop,
Week 12 {05/06} Clewell, essay; female “Confessional poets”--Plath, Sexton, etc.
Week 13 {05/13} Altieri, 171-92; Adrienne Rich,
Week 14 {05/20 “A man’s POV”: Nemerov, William Stafford, Robert Hayden, James Dickey
Week 15 {05/27} Altieri, 200-214: John Ashbery
Week 16 {06/03} Contemporary poets: Louise Gluck, Billy Collins
Week 17 Open Topic
Week 18 {06/10} Review
Evaluation
Midterm essay 25%
Discussion 25%
Final Research Paper 50%
Textbook & other References
“Understanding Poetry.” Ed. Brooks & Warren
“The Art of Twentieth Century Poetry.” C. Altieri
Etc
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Google drive folder ( https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jcH8cvK_yGUTPxNkkfKXMLgoVffmwLjo?usp=sharing )
Office Hours
Weds. 2-3
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