ENG 890 World War and the Witness of Poetry

A research seminar exploring the relationship between collective memory, poetic style, and the conditions of twentieth-century world war. Readings may include but are not limited to the work of Wilfred Owen, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Vera Brittain, Charlotte Mew, Czeslaw Milosz, Primo Levi, Keith Douglas, Eugenio Montale, and Paul Celan.