This course explores poems by the representative poets of the modern(ist) period, such as Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, H.D., W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, and others. What is unique about this period is the co-presence of and tension between elements of the chronologically modern and the radically modern (i.e. “modernist”), embodied in perspectives and issues that continue to impact our contemporary era. Students will be intrigued by the depth of anxieties and the variety of opportunities inherent in modern and modernist poetry.