WRIT 8402 - Lyric Essay

While the term “lyric essay” has become recently fashionable, the emergence of essays and prose poems that explore subject matter through imaginative intensity and focused compression–including great freedom of movement and of transition–goes back to the nineteenth century. This class will give students the opportunity to study models of the form from authors such as Charles Lamb, Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Virginia Woolf, Mary Ruefle, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and others. One critical essay on the lyric essay form will be required of each student, along with two creative manuscript submissions.

Credits: 4

Note: MFA topics