excellent

Excellent

writing

superb

GREAT

great

Good.

ممتاز

Good

good

good

good

👍👍

nice

jj

5

The course is enriched with tremendous content. It takes all the full hours, days and months to complete this course. As the Coursera is giving opportunity to do multitasking while learning from anywhere, this course seems a bit lengthy and demands full time attention. One may miss the link if one remains irregular. Poetry is a vast filed of thoughts and ideas. Indeed the course opens many new ranges of thoughts and ideas.

What I liked the most about the course is live discussion of the poems. Many poems were very difficult to understand but when more than two people get together to churn and decipher the words beyond their face value, any difficult poem becomes easy to grasp.

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.