FREN 5500 - Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Poetry

3 hours

Study and analysis of the major movements of French poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, starting with the works of the Romantics, the Parnassians, the Symbolists (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Mallarmé), including a survey of the development of the genre since the Surrealists (Apollinaire, Breton, Desnos) with an emphasis on poetry after 1950 (Ponge, Char, du Bouchet).

Prerequisite(s): None.