ENGL 30493 Women Poets and Poetic Tradition
Prerequisites: ENGL 10803, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL/WRIT/CRWT course. A survey of British, American and Anglophone women poets from the 16th century to the present. Emphasis will be given to women writers' engagement with, contribution to, and rewriting of poetic tradition; to the social and historical conditions affecting women's poetic production; and to the relation between poetry, poetics, and theories of gender.