The course will focus on the generic work of the lyric in modernity, through the study of poets of the 20th Century such as Rilke, Hofmannsthal, George, Trakl, Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Akhmatova, Celan, Apollinaire, Perse, Eluard, Aragon, Char, Valery, Agha Shahid Ali, and Cavafy. Rilke and Elliot may serve as a guiding thread while other poets will also be closely examined. Theoretical insights and philosophical responses to poetry from Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault, and Valery will be introduced.
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