Course Info: IA-0249
| Course | IA-0249 Writing the Sonnet |
| Long Title | Writing the Sonnet |
| Term | 2017S |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 4 on TH from 6:00-9:00 |
| Faculty | John Murillo |
| Capacity | 15 |
| Available | 0 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Multiple Cultural Perspectives Independent Work |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, research. |
| Description | The sonnet is one of our oldest and most ubiquitous poetic forms. For centuries, writers as disparate as William Shakespeare, Marilyn Nelson, Wanda Coleman, and David Wojahn have dabbled, innovated, succeeded, and sometimes failed with the form. In this course, we explored the demands and nuances of the sonnet in an effort to discover what has attracted and continues to attract so many practitioners. By semester's end, students had developed greater facility with the form itself, as well as skills and techniques that may be of use when composing future poems, whether formal or free-verse. |