NOC:Twentieth-Century English Poetry: Between Lyric and Epic

Lecture 1 - Introduction to 20th-Century Poetry

Lecture 2 - The Transnational Origins of 20th-Century Poetry

Lecture 3 - Make It New: Aesthetic Revolution

Lecture 4 - William Butler Yeats: Biographical Context

Lecture 5 - William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Lecture 6 - William Butler Yeats: Nationalism in The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Lecture 7 - Modernist Elegy

Lecture 8 - Poetry and the Authenticity of Mourning

Lecture 9 - Wallace Stevens: The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Lecture 10 - Thomas Hardy: Elegist

Lecture 11 - Thomas Hardy: Poems 1912-1913

Lecture 12 - Thomas Hardy Concluded

Lecture 13 - Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

Lecture 14 - H.D.: Eurydice

Lecture 15 - Robert Frost: Biographical Context

Lecture 16 - Robert Frost: North of Boston

Lecture 17 - Robert Frost: Home Burial

Lecture 18 - Robert Frost: The Death of the Hired Man

Lecture 19 - Edna St. Vincent Millay: Biographical Context

Lecture 20 - Edna St. Vincent Millay: Renascence

Lecture 21 - Edna St. Vincent Millay: Blight

Lecture 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Sonnet

Lecture 23 - Edna St. Vincent Millay and Vanity Fair

Lecture 24 - Edna St. Vincent Millay: Spring and Other Poems

Lecture 25 - Edna St. Vincent Millay: Concluded; T. S. Eliot: Introduced

Lecture 26 - T. S. Eliot - 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'

Lecture 27 - T. S. Eliot - 'The Metaphysical Poets'

Lecture 28 - Late Style in Four Quartets

Lecture 29 - Four Quartets Concluded

Lecture 30 - Robert Lowell - Life Studies

Lecture 31 - W. H. Auden: Introduction

Lecture 32 - Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Elegy in Auden

Lecture 33 - Auden and Influence: Wilfred Owen and W. B. Yeats

Lecture 34 - September 1913

Lecture 35 - In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Lecture 36 - Auden on Sigmund Freud

Lecture 37 - Langston Hughes - Introduction

Lecture 38 - Elegy, Blues, and Blackness

Lecture 39 - Blues and Negritude - Proem

Lecture 40 - The Weary Blues and The Negro Artist

Lecture 41 - Blues Fantasy and 'Fine Clothes for the Jew'

Lecture 42 - Lynch Poems - Bitter Fruit, Song for a Dark Girl

Lecture 43 - Silhouette and Blue Bayou

Lecture 44 - The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Bitter River

Lecture 45 - The Moose - Introducing Elizabeth Bishop

Lecture 46 - The Moose Continued - Motion and Imagination in Bishop's poems

Lecture 47 - Elizabeth Bishop - Biographical Contexts and The Map

Lecture 48 - Questions of Travel

Lecture 49 - One Art

Lecture 50 - Sylvia Plath: The Fraught Background to 'Ariel'

Lecture 51 - Sylvia Plath - The Rabbit Catcher

Lecture 52 - Ted Hughes - The Rabbit Catcher

Lecture 53 - American Family Elegy - Full Fathom Five

Lecture 54 - Electra on Azalea Path and The Colossus

Lecture 55 - The Colossus and Daddy

Lecture 56 - Concluding Plath, Introducing Walcott

Lecture 57 - Walcott - Ruins of a Great House

Lecture 58 - Walcott - 'Omeros'

Lecture 59 - Mythic Method and Introduction to Arun Kolatkar

Lecture 60 - Turnaround, 'Kala Ghoda' poems, and 'Jejuri'