Week 1: Introduction: What Is Poetry? 
I. Formal Approach: Basic Terms
Week 2: I. Formal Approach: Sound, Rhythm, Meter & Traditional Forms. 
II. Biographical Approach: Lecture on Poets I
Week 3: III. Contextual Approach: American at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Test on Key Terms)
Week 4: Imagism and the Birth of Modernism
Week 5: Modernism
Week 6: The Experience of War, 1900-1967
Week 7: The Harlem Renaissance 1
Week 8: The Harlem Renaissance 2 (Notebooks Due)
Week 9: Review (Mid-Term Test)
Week 10: Post War and Cold War: Confessional Poetry (Essay Assigned)
Week 11: New American Poetry: New York, San Francisco and Black Mountain Poets
Week 12: The Beat Generation
Week 13: Singer-songwriters of the 
Counter Culture (Draft of Essay Due)
Week 14: The Black Arts Movement (Notebooks Due)
Week 15: New Trends and New Voices in American Poetry, 1970-2000 (Final Essay Due
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