We will pay close formal attention to individual poems and will consider their contexts in poets' essays, correspondence, and debates about poetry. Among other questions, the course will address the plurality of British, American, and Canadian modernisms, and connections between nationality and modernism. Acquaintance with the work of Eliot, Pound, Moore, Stevens, and Frost is recommended. Competence in second language. Weekly series of presentations by translators from Boston and elsewhere, open to registered students and to the public.
Registered students complete special projects and attend workshops.
Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students in the Creative Writing Program. Emphasis on the evolution of English prosody with frequent formal exercises and memorization. This course offers the rare opportunity to study the works of a writer with the writer himself. We shall explore the development of Elie Wiesel as a writer of fiction and examine the narrative structure and important themes of his most acclaimed works. Texts will be read in English.