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Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
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Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course This course explores modern poetry as it developed from the turn of the twentieth century up through the late twentieth centruy. The structure of the course aims to provide a broad survey of poetic movements with an in-depth study of individual poets and their epic poems.
Course Content This course considers some of the substantial twentieth-century poetic voices in England and America, such as Hardy, Eliot, Yeats, Pound, Owen, Dylan, Ted Hughes, Heaney, and Langston Hughes, Frost, and e.e. cummings.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction to the Course Introduction to Modernist Poetry *AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 21-35 AR: Neil Corcoran - The Companion to 20th ct. English Poetry, pp. 9-21
2Thomas Hardy "The Darkling Thrush" - "The Oxen" AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 359-367
3William Butler Yeats "The Tower" - "Leda and the Swan" AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 437-446 AR:Peter Howarth- The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry, pp. 82-103
4D. H. Lawrence & Ezra Pound "Humming Bird" & "In a Station of the Metro" - "The Tree" AR: Neil Corcoran - The Companion to 20th ct. English Poetry, pp. 74-86 AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 392-402 AR:Peter Howarth- The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry, pp. 33-56
5T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - "The Waste Land" AR: William H. Pritchard- Lives of the Modern Poets pp. 171-201 AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 381-390 AR:Peter Howarth- The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry, pp. 57-81
6Wilfred Owen "Dulce et Decorum est" - "Strange Meeting" AR: Neil Corcoran - The Companion to 20th ct. English Poetry, pp. 87-100
7W. H. Auden "Letter to Lord Byron" AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 448-456 AR: Neil Corcoran - The Companion to 20th ct. English Poetry, pp. 105-115
8MIDTERM
9Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" - "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 329-341 AR: Poetry of Dylan Thomas :John Goodby- Under the Spelling Wall, pp. 22-56
10Philip Larkin "Deceptions" - "This Be The Verse" AR: Neil Corcoran - The Companion to 20th ct. English Poetry, pp. 147-157
11Thom Gunn Hitch- hiker (Songs For J L Dahmer) AR: Rule and Energy: The Poetry of Thom Gunn Author(s): Jay Parini and Thom Gunn
12Ted Hughes "Crow's Fall"- "Crow is Blacker than Ever" AR: Neil Corcoran - The Companion to 20th ct. English Poetry, pp. 187-193 AR:Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 513-522
13Seamus Heaney "Bogland" - "Summer 1969" AR: Neil Roberts-A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry pp. 524-535
14Langston Hughes "I,too" - "The Weary Blues" AR: Eve Triem - E. E. Cummings -pp. in its entirety AR: Harold Bloom - Modern American Poetry pp. 395-418

Resources

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Recommended Sources:

Ayers, David. Modernism: A Short Introduction
Bergonzi, Bernard, The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature
Bradshaw, David and Kevin J. H. Dettmar (eds.). A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture
Calinescu, Matei. Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism.
Chinitz, David E. and Gail McDonald (eds.). A Companion to Modernist Poetry
Cook, Jon (ed.). Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000
Craig, Cairns. Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry
Davis, Alex, and Lee M. Jenkins (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry
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Emig, Rainer. Modernism in Poetry: Motivations, Structures and Limits
Faulkner, Peter, A Modernist Reader: Modernism in England 1910‐1930
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Hymans, Theo, The Structure of Modernist Poetry
Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era
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Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry, Vol 1: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
Press, John, A Map of Modern English Verse
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Ramazani, Jahan (ed.). The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Vol 1: Modern Poetry
Stead, C. K. Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement