Poetry and the Marine Environment

In this course we will read and discuss Anglophone poetry about the sea, from the Old English poem The Seafarer to Derek Walcott’s The Sea is History. Our two main goals will be to investigate how poets imagine the marine environment and to bring multiple interpretive approaches to bear on literary texts from different regions and traditions. These approaches will include formal, contextual, and theoretical methods of inquiry. We will read poems by a diversity of poets, including John Masefield, Rudyard Kipling, Adrienne Rich, Derek Walcott, and Mary Oliver.

Schedule
1:00pm-3:00pm on Tuesday at CHT 110 (Jan 6, 2020 to Jan 31, 2020)
1:00pm-4:00pm on Monday, Friday at CHT 110 (Jan 6, 2020 to Jan 31, 2020)
Location
Le Chateau 110
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