ENGL 340 Writers of Significance: Elizabeth Bishop & Sylvia Plath

Prerequisites: Junior standing and completion of the Literary Analysis requirement or ENGL 210, ENGL 222 or ENGL 223; or permission of the instructor. An in-depth study of two prominent twentieth-century American poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath. In addition to a close examination of Bishop's and Plath's poems, short stories, novels, letters, and journals, the course will use recent criticism and biographical sources to help illuminate the works in question. (WS)