This course was easy to manage as a self-paced course. I appreciated options to look at additional materials. I liked the interaction in the discussion.

The course is approachable for people with little to no knowledge in poetry yet is interesting and challenging. It is well explained and manageable.

The professor interrupts the panel so much it’s incredibly distracting and it makes even the transcript hard to read.

Gone through unexplored knowledge about American Poetry in the new era

Es largo, pero vale totalmente la pena

it is good

not bad!

STRONG START, love all participants, love Al and the whole team, very nice, chapters 1-7 are the strongest, but I think the final chapters over emphasize minor poets of limited influence, unknowns, people of dubious prestige and status, academics, departmental favorites while major poets are ignored. Nothing is done with the major new poetic translations, for example, of the classics, thinking of Homer, little is done with famous foreign poets writing in English, nothing is done with Irish, British, Australian poets while two chapters are devoted to found poetry and dadaist experimental work of dubious worth. Robert Lowell is never mentioned nor other important post-war poets such as Frederick Seidel. Not a word on Derek Wolcott. Women poets such as Plath are not mentioned. Obscure poets, all teachers are treated as major figures when their work has had any real impact and has no popular popularity. Elizabeth Bishop is never mentioned. The playwright poets get no attention. I think there are 2-3 weeks that would be better reduced to a single week. The Southern poets require time, maybe the anti-war poets deserve something, maybe Bob Dylan...? I don't know, but I felt very disappointed in the end with the preference for obscure academics who are really one-pony minor figures with few poetic skills.

I am Gargi Choudhury. I have taken this course and I would like to share my expeeience with the world. I would anyone who wants to impove their thought process in english literature should take this course. It was quiet helpful for me.

Al Filreis is an excellent instructor and very charismatic, unfortunately the poetry taught consists of only one worldview: secular humanist. Its too bad, otherwise I would offer 5 stars.

Tedious! Lots of busy work and no certificate.