**For a complete listing of courses by department, visit: http://timeschedules.uchicago.edu

2007-08 Poetry Courses

SPRING 08

A New Commentary on Dante's "Rime" (Claudio Guinta)
Advanced Poetry (Ed Roberson)
Aeneids in Translation (David Wray)
Beginning Poetry Writing (Ed Roberson)
Contemporary Portuguese Poetry (Miguel Tamen)
Dante's Divine Comedy 3: Paradiso (Justin Steinberg)
Defending Poetry (Oren Izenberg)
Donne and Herbert (Richard Strier)
Ghazals of Rumi (Franklin Lewis)
Gods & Lovers: Devotional & Courtly Poetry in Braj Bhasha (Valerie Ritter )
Intermediate Poetry: Autobiography in American Poetry (Garin Cycholl)
Islamic Love Poetry (Michael Sells)
Lyric/Epinician Poetry (Christopher Faraone)
Mahabharata in English Translation (Wendy Doniger)
Medieval Czech Poetry (Malynne Sternstein)
Ovid Metamorphoses (Walter Ralph Johnson)
Performance Poetry (cin Salach)
Poesie Et Recit Au Moyen Age (Daisy Delogu)
The Romanticization of Greece: Friedrich Holderlin & Ezra Pound (Robert von Hallberg)
Shamans & Oral Poets of Central Asia (Kagan Arik)
Things Poets Say (Miguel Tamen)
Vergil (David Wray)

WINTER 08

American Poetry from 1945 to Present (Oren Izenberg)
Arabic Poetry of Shustari and Ibn-'Arabi (Michael Sells)
Beginning Poetry Writing (Ed Roberson)
D. H. Lawrence (Michael Savitz)
Gender & Genre: The Modern Lyric From Decadentismo to Today's Poetic Eclecticism (Rebecca West)
Il Poema Epico-Cavalleresco (Elissa Weaver)
Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Jennifer Scappettone)
Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Poetry of Milton and Blake (Robin Valenza)
Poetry and the Philosophy of Mind (Oren Izenberg)
Thesis Seminar: Poetry (Ed Roberson)
Twentieth Century Irish Poetry (Jennifer Ludwig)

AUTUMN 07

Abbasid Poetry (Tahera Qutbuddin)
Advanced Poetry Writing (Mary Margaret Sloan)
African American & Caribbean Poetry (Robert von Hallberg)
Anth Lit-World Poetry (Paul Friedrich)
Beginning Poetry Writing (Garin Cycholl)
Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (Neta Stahl)
Homer's Odyssey (Wendy Olmsted)
Intermediate Poetry (Mary Margaret Sloan)
Introduction To Poetry (Joshua Scodel)
Milton (Joshua Scodel)
Poesia Y Prosodia Desde El Medioevo Al Modernismo   (Rene De Costa)
Poetry vs Zeitgeist - Czeslaw Milosz Among His Masters & Peers (Adam Zagajewski)
Realism & the Abracadabrant Word: Lit Productions of Lower Manhattan  (Jennifer Scappettone)
Roman Elegy (David Wray)
Seminar: Modern European Poetics (Robert von Hallberg)
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Herman Sinaiko; Ralph Lerner)
Survey Of Greek Lit-1: Poetry (Christopher Faraone)
What a Lyric Poem Can Carry (Adam Zagajewski)

Writing Poetry (past courses)

Advanced Poetry Workshop: Writing Practices (Srikanth Reddy)
Advanced Poetry Workshop: Service Learning (Srikanth Reddy)
Advanced Poetry: Service Learning (Srikanth Reddy)
Advanced Poetry: Writing Practices (Srikanth Reddy)
Advanced Workshop & Seminar in the Practice of Poetry (Jim Powell)
Beginning Creative Writing: Creative Reading for Writers (Mary Margaret Sloan)
Beginning Poetry Workshop (Mary Margaret Sloan)
Beginning Poetry Workshop (Alane Rollings)
Beginning Poetry Workshop  (Suzanne Buffam)
Beginning Creative Writing: Introduction to Genres (Rob Morris)
Beginning Poetry Writing (Srikanth Reddy)
Beginning Poetry Workshop: Letters to Young Poets (Srikanth Reddy)
Contemporary Lyric Sequences (Karen Volkman)
Intermediate Poetry Workshop  (Suzanne Buffam)
Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Mary Margaret Sloan)
Performance Poetry (cin Salach)
Poetry Workshop: Radical Strategies (Karen Volkman)
Poetry: Writing from the Outside (Karen Volkman)
Thesis Seminar: Poetry (Srikanth Reddy)
Unreal Cities: Poetry of the Metropolis (Karen Volkman)

Poetry and Poets in Historical Context (past courses)

Greek Poetry Survey
An intensive course in the original Greek covering texts from Homer to Callimachus (Danielle Allen)
Aristotle’s Rhetoric (Danielle Allen)
Greek Lyric and Epinician Poetry (Mark Payne)
Greek Thought and Literature (College Core) (Mark Payne)
Theocritus Seminar (Mark Payne)
Heroines (David Wray)
The Epic Tradition (David Wray)
Greek and Roman Lyric (David Wray)
Virgil, Aeneid (David Wray)
Roman Elegy (David Wray)
Survey of Latin Literature (David Wray)
Lucan (David Wray)
Roman Poetic Heroines (David Wray)
Roman Philosophical Poetry: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (David Wray)
English Poetry from Wyatt to Milton (Bradin Cormack)
Spenser (Joshua Scodel)
Spenser and Shakespeare (Bradin Cormack)
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Bradin Cormack)
Writing and the Early Modern Court (Bradin Cormack)
"Metaphysical" Poetry (Richard Strier)
Seventeenth-century Female Poets (Richard Strier)
Milton (Richard Strier, Joshua Scodel)
Seventeenth-century English Secular Lyric (Joshua Scodel)
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century English Love Poetry (Joshua Scodel)
Seventeenth-century English Neoclassical Verse and Prose (Joshua Scodel)
Renaissance and 18th-century English Pastoral and Georgic Poetry (Joshua Scodel)
George Herbert and Emily Dickinson (Richard Strier)
Literature of Bengal: M. M. Dutt and Nineteenth-Century Bengali Identity (Clinton Seely)
The Poetry of Jibanananda Das (Clinton Seely)
Poet-Critics: Arnold, Poe, & Eliot (Robert von Hallberg)
Ezra Pound & Modernism British Modernism (Robert von Hallberg)
European Theories of Modernity: Bloch, Benjamin, Bataille, Simmel (Robert von Hallberg)
Symbolist Tradition in French & English Poetry (Robert von Hallberg)
Modern Poetry: the 1920s (Robert von Hallberg)
Postwar Polish Poetry and Reading the Arch-Text: Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz (Bozena Shallcross)
American Poetry from 1945-Present (Oren Izenberg, Robert von Hallberg)
Modernist Poetry and Poetics (Oren Izenberg)
American Poetry and Prose of the 1960s (Joshua Scodel)
Contemporary Asian-American Poetry (Deborah Nelson)
Introduction to Poetry (Richard Strier)
Elements of Poetry and Poetics (Robert von Hallberg)
The Critical Reception of Epic from the Ancients to the Eighteenth Century (Joshua Scodel)
The Religious Lyric from Donne to Carl Phillips (Richard Strier)
English Literary Criticism (Joshua Scodel)
Literature and the Philosophy of Mind (Oren Izenberg)
American Poetry/ 1945 - Present  (Oren Izenberg)
Anth Lit-World Poetry (Paul Friedrich)
Music and Poetry (Robert von Hallberg, Travis A Jackson)
Ovid's Metamorphoses  (Mary Lee Behnke)
Shamans & Oral Poets of Central Asia  (Arik Kagan)
Three Authors: Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson  (Bradin Cormack)
Vergil's Aeneid  (Walter Ralph Johnson)
The Cantos of Ezra Pound  (Srikanth Reddy)
Czeslaw Milosz and (His) Ideolgies (Bozena Shallcross)
English Poetry From Wyatt to Milton  (Bradin Cormack)
Greek Poetics and the Gendered Voice (Allen Romano)
Homer's Iliad  (Mary Lee Behnke)
Idiomatic Ideologies: Wiliam Carlos Williams & his Legacy  (Matthias Regan)
Introduction To Poetry  (Robert Von Hallberg)
Lyric Poetry and the Philosophy of Mind (Oren Izenberg)
Poesia Hispanoamericana, Escrita Por Mujeres  (Kelly Austin)
Elements of Poetry and Poetics  (Robert von Hallberg)
Love Lyric in the 20th Century  (Lee Glidewell)
Lucretius (Elizabeth Asmis)
Mallarme (Francoise Meltzer)
Nineteenth Century Russian Poetry (Milton H. Ehre)
Postwar Polish Poetry  (Bozena Shallcross)
Pre-Islamic Poetry: Mu'allaqat, Sa'alik, ritha' (Tahera Qutbuddin)
Rilke's Poetry and Prose  (Eric Santner)
Sa'Di: Poetry And Prose (Heshmat Moayyad)
Survey Of Greek Lit-1: Poetry (Christopher Faraone)
Seminar: Hellenistic Poetry  (Mark Payne)
The Shijing, Classic of Poetry (Edward L. Shaughnessy)
Wordsworth's "The Prelude" and St. Augustine on Memory (Bernard Brown)
World Poetry  (Robert von Hallberg)
Advanced Poetry: Poetics in Practice (Suzanne Buffam)
Anth Lit-World Poetry (Paul Friedrich)
Beginning Poetry Writing (Suzanne Buffam)
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and Early Poetry (Mark Miller)
Extremist Poetry: Paul Celan and Sylvia Plath (Robert Von Hallberg)
Intermediate Poetry: Image, Voice and Form (Srikanth Reddy)
La Poesia Italiana Nel Contesto Europeo Dal 1800 In Poi
La Poesia Italiana TRA Otto E Novecento: Da Leopardi A Montale
Milton (Joshua K Scodel)
Phaedra and Hippoytus: Euripides, Seneca, Racine (Glenn Most)
Poetry of Place: Poetry, Landscape, Space in Anglo-American Tradition (Jennifer Ludwig)
Seminar: Aeneid (Mary Lee Behnke)
Shakespeares Sonnets  (Bradin Cormack)
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and Early Poetry (John Miller)
Greek Epic (Mark Payne)
Homer's Odyssey (Wendy Olmsted)
Il Poema Epico-Cavalleresco (Elissa Weaver)
Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Jennifer Scappettone)
Introduction To Poetry (Robert von Hallberg)
The Modernist Long Poem (Srikanth Reddy)
Posia, Nacion Y Ciudadania En El Siglo XIX Hispanamericano (Agnes Lugo-Ortiz)
Poetic Cinema (Robert Bird)
Ren Texts: Petrarch/Descartes (Richard A. Strier)
Thesis Seminar: Poetry (Srikanth Reddy)
Urban Zones of Modernism and Modernity (Jennifer Scappettone)
Wallace Stevens and After (Liesl Olson)
Wordsworth: Theory and History (Neil Chudgar)
Lyric/Epinican Poetry (Mark Payne)
Modern European Poetics (Robert Von Hallberg)
Poesia, Modernidad, E Hist: Octavio Paz (TBA)
Poetry And Being (Lisa Ruddick)
Poetry Now! (Joshua Kotin)
Postvirgilian Epic (Shadi Bartsch)
Wordsworth's "The Prelude" and St. Augustine on Memory (Bernard Brown)
The Poet in the Novel (Oren Izenberg)
The Cinematic Lyric: Literature Seminar (Srikanth Reddy)
Defending Poetry (Oren Izenberg