IMF 51702 Poetry: The Sonnet L W

Instructor

Anothai Kaewkaen

Class Type 

Literature & Workshop

Course Description

Scorn Not: The Sonnet, The Sonnet Collection, and Sonnets in Collection

If no other received form has accrued such bad press over its long history (Wordsworth was already defending it in his day), it成人视频檚 because no other received form has been so enduringly popular, so stubbornly perennial, and often so painfully conventional, as the sonnet. In this course, we will survey examples of contemporary sonnets and sonnet collections as we seek to understand what makes these fourteen(?)-line poems work, and how artists across different schools and backgrounds have reinterpreted the form. We成人视频檒l analyze winners of the prominent Nemerov Sonnet Contest in our discussion of what constitutes 成人视频済ood成人视频� contemporary sonnets (and what a contemporary sonnet even is), develop a class criteria for their assessment, and explore the form itself as a field where both tradition and experimentation play. Finally, through a series of workshops, we ourselves will wander, like so many distinguished writers before us have, 成人视频渢he Sonnet成人视频檚 scanty plot of ground.成人视频�

Textbook

The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology
Editors: Edward Hirsch, Eavan Boland
ISBN: 9780393333534

A Wreath for Emmett Till
Author: Marilyn Nelson
ISBN: 9780547076362

All the Wasted Beauty of the World
Author: Richard Newman
ISBN: 9781927409312

Walking in on People
Author: Balmain
ISBN: 9781927409299