* What is poetrys wellspring? God? Nature? The human self?
* Is poetry superfluous to human progress?
* Are the literary arts a vehicle to higher truths or a pack of lies?
* Is the author a divinely inspired rhapsode or a mere artisan, manufacturing meaning?

To answer these questions, this course engages an enormous range of material. Youll follow the strands of this conversation between philosophy and the literary arts down the millennia, profiting from in-depth analyses of works by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Dryden, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Foucault, Derrida, and more. Youll concentrate on critical reflections about poetrythe oldest of the literary arts, and also come away with lessons on how to understand literature, and all of the arts, more generally. More importantly, youll be prepared to join in these critical conversations yourself.

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