This course will begin with some central figures behind and within English language 20th-century poetry and then split up into interest groups according to the students鈥 own enthusiasms and desires to explore.聽 The central figures will include Whitman, Dickinson, Pater, Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, William Carlos Williams, H. D., Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes.聽 The primary medium will be close and joyous attention to the poems themselves as well as the kinds of activities that can bring us imaginat...