#  English 58. Poets: Keats Isn't Dead: How We Live Romanticism 

 



 Instructor: [Vidyan Ravinthiran](/people/vidyan-ravinthiran)  
Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30 pm | Location: Sever 110  
*Enrollment: Limited to 27 students.*

 Our thoughts and feelings about identity, self-expression, and the power of the imagination draw on the British Romantic poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century--whether we've read any or not. Focusing on one such poet, John Keats (his key poems, and his key ideas, about 'negative capability', the 'camelion poet', and so on), this course makes unconventional connections into the twentieth, and twenty-first century. Tracking issues of race, class, gender and sexuality, we'll bounce from Keats into war verse (Wilfred Owen); African-American poetries (Countee Cullen, Robert Hayden, Claudia Rankine); world/postcolonial writing (Rabindranath Tagore, A.K. Ramanujan, Li-Young Lee, Arthur Yap); the literature of social class (D.H. Lawrence, Tony Harrison); feminist experimentalism (Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Anne Carson, Rae Armantrout, Maureen N. McLane, Hera Lindsay Bird); and constructions of gay masculinity (Thom Gunn and Mark Doty). Concentrators will learn how to analyse poetry in both closed and open forms.

 *Note: Be sure to attend first class meeting to be considered for admittance.*



 



 

 See also:- [ Poetry ](/course-topic/poetry)