COML 6840 - [Hopkins and Baudelaire]

(crosslisted) ENGL 6820

Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

J. Culler.

The study of seductive lyrics by two apparently antithetical poets, priest and satanist. In addition to exploring the lyric techniques of these two masters of poetic craft, the course will raise questions about possibilities of the comparative study of lyric, the grounds of comparison, and, more generally, about how the study of lyric should go beyond the individual poem.