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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

ENG 169 - Poetic Idiom through the Ages

3 Credits
Offered 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.

Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Language, Arts, and Humanities