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FeaturesFor many years, I have taught in the Department of English at New York University a course called “Modern British and American Poetry.” “Modern” is deemed to mean, approximately, Whitman and after. “British” is deemed for administrative purposes, but for no other purpose in my hearing, to include W. B. Yeats and any other modern Irish poet who wrote or writes in English. I doubt that anyone would protest if I stretched the word “British” to include the Santa Lucian Derek Walcott and the Australian A. D. Hope. When I first offered this course, many years ago, I divided it into two approximately chronological parts. The first part ran from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855) to Eliot’s Waste Land (1922). The other poets I read here were Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Edwi ... You need to login to view the full text of this article. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 24 April 2006, on page 14 Copyright © 2008 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/defeating-the-poem-2364
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