Form and Self in Poetry: Sonnets of Shakespeare: Robert Lowell
FAIN: FS-10580-76
Monroe Spears
Rice University (Houston, TX 77005-1827)
To conduct a seminar on the relation between the forms of poetry and the concept of a "Self" (conscious and unconscious) expressed in it. The primary texts will be Shakespeare's Sonnets and Lowell's History supplemented by his other sequences.