Marking the twentieth anniversary of his death, this seminar focuses on in-depth reading of selections from Life Studies, considered Robert Lowell’s masterpiece.

This seminar will use visual and musical works to explore the moment when the modern poet is pulled in many different directions by complicated emotions.

"One of the most popular poets of the 1920s, Edna St. Vincent Millay was known for her exquisite love sonnets and her dazzling concert hall recitations.

A review of the seminal sources of the Beat experience in poetry and a discussion of the work of Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth and William Everson/Brother Antoninus as progenitors of the Beats.