Aug 01, 2025  
2023-2024 Hill Book (Class of 2027) 
    
2023-2024 Hill Book (Class of 2027) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

ENG 169 - Poetic Idiom through the Ages (Cornerstone Seminar)

Three Credits
Periodically or As Needed

Using some of the most familiar and often taught works in each genre of poetry, this course will explore the poetic styles and forms of artistic expression that are characteristic of certain poets and periods of literature down through the ages. It will also examine the idiom of current songwriters like Lil Wayne and Taylor Swift and compare and contrast them with poets, both past and contemporary.

General Education Attribute(s): First-Year Seminar, Literature Cornerstone