The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews in this inspiring series. Illustrative poems in each program are accompanied by insights into their historical and cultural connections. The series covers the terminology of poetry and the larger role of poets in American and world literature studies. Poets include Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth Bishop.
Free Online Literature Courses
How Stories Seduce Us (Stanley Fish).
From the courtroom to the bedroom, arguments are woven throughout our private and public lives: they are how we decide what’s right, what’s true and what we should do. With examples ranging from Milton’s Paradise Lost to the legalization of same sex marriage and Donald Trump, Fish shows us how the rules of engagement shift between contexts – and how rhetoric is the key to success in all of them.
A free online course on storytelling
William S. Burroughs’ Short Class on Creative Reading
American Passages: A Literary Survey
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
13 Lectures from Allen Ginsberg’s “History of Poetry” Course (1975)
A Free Online Course on Literary Theory, Covering Structuralism, Deconstruction & More
World Literature in 13 Parts: From Gilgamesh to García Márquez
Modern Poetry: A Free Course from Yale