English 471: Modern Poetry

Final Study Guide

Mary Adams, Instructor

Class Meets TR 11-22:30 in Coulter 304
Office Hours TR 2-3:30 or by appointment

Ext. 3921 Email: [email protected] Class Web Page: http://www.maryadams.net/classpages/471/eng471.htm

• Download Reading Sheet
• Link to OED through WCU

Class Links

• Wonderful Online Course and Text: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, U. Penn)
• Poetry Daily
• Poetic Terms
  • Terms mentioned in class (updated regularly)
  • Ian Lancashire's Glossary of Poetic Terms
• Hypermedia poem/art project pages
  • Bornmag
  • 100 Black Boxes
  • Cyberfictions
• Bad Poetry Pages
  • Horrendous, Embarrassing Poems
  • Bad Poetry Page (Including the Bad Teen Angst Poetry Site)
• Rhyming Dictionaries
  • Rhymezone
  • Rhymer.com (has many kinds of rhyme)

Texts :

• Rental.  Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, vols. 1 & 2. 3rd edition.
• Purchase: Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After. 
• Purchase: Finch, Annie, editor. An Exaltation of Forms.  

Assignments:

• Reading Sheets. . . . . 40%
• Midterm 10%
• Paper 1: Primary Source Analysis 10%
• Paper 2: Reading + Research. two books by a single author, or read several poets in a school or movement. 15%
• Participation     10%
• Final Exam     15%  

Attendance and Tardiness You get a total of three absences in this class (excused or not). After that, each additional absence lowers your grade one letter. I count three tardies as one absence. You�re tardy if I�m done taking attendance when you arrive. NOTE: You are also absent if you don't bring the books we're discussing for that day!