SPA 4335 - Masterpieces of Hispanic Poetry

Credits: 3 hrs

This course is a study of major Hispanic poets. Focus will be directed toward the poetry and poetic developments of the twentieth century. The works of Dario, Paz, Vallejo, Neruda, Mistral, Ortiz, Parra, Góngora, Machado, Ramón Jiménez, Salinas, García Lorca, Aleixandre, Guillén, Alberti, and others will be examined. The essentials of Spanish versification will be stressed along with distinctive poetic movements and developments. A review of contemporaneous poetic criticism and theory will be introduced.
Pre-requisite(s): SPA 3333 or SPA 3335 or permission of department