Course Syllabus
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Lecture 1 What Is Poetry?
Lecture 2 Oral Tradition
Lecture 3 The Roots of the Tree: Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Lecture 4 Of Meters and of Rhyming Craftily: Middle English and the Development of Rhymed Poetry
Lecture 5 Early Renaissance: An Exploration of Form
Lecture 6 Metaphysicals, Milton
Lecture 7 The Hard Stuff: The Eighteenth Century and the Influence of Classical Learning
Lecture 8 Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge
Lecture 9 Later Romantics: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Lecture 10 Victorians!
Lecture 11 American Poetry and the Development of Free Verse
Lecture 12 Modernism
Lecture 13 Late Modernism
Lecture 14 Poetry Now
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Course Overview
In A Way withWords I, II, and III, Professor Michael D.C.
Drout increased listeners’ understanding of the way literature
works, of the rhetoric that in many ways defines people’s lives,
and of the intricacies of grammar, all while maintaining a lively
tone that conveys the professor’s infectious enthusiasm for the
subject. In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout
submerses listeners in poetry’s past, present, and future.
Addressing such poetic luminaries as Milton,Wordsworth,
Shelley, and Keats, these lectures explain in simple terms what
poetry is while following its development through the centuries.
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 Way With Words IV: Understanding Poetry (Booklet)
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Professor
Professor Michael D.C. Drout
(Wheaton College)
Michael D.C. Drout is an associate professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in Old and Middle English, medieval literature, Chaucer, fantasy, and science fiction.
Professor Drout received his Ph.D. in medieval literature from Loyola Universi...
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Course Final Exam
Literature
