pt. 2: Free verse ; The English sonnet I ; The English sonnet II ; The enduring sonnet ; Poets thinking ; The greater romantic lyric ; Poets thinking, some 20th-century versions ; Portrayals of heroism ; Heroism, some 20th-century versions ; Poems talking to (and for) works of art ; Echoes in poems ; Farewells and falling leaves.

pt. 1: What to look (and listen) for in poems ; Memory and composition ; Poets look at the world ; Picturing nature ; Metaphor and metonymy I ; Metaphor and metonymy II ; Poetic tone ; The uses of sentiment ; The uses of irony ; Poetic forms and meters ; Sound effects ; Three 20th-century villanelles --