Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21L.704 (Fall 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?" 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Literature 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Noel Jackson 
• Course Introduction:
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  21L.704 Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?"
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive list of readings and a description of the assignments.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course explores variations on the proposition that an adequate recognition of beauty could, however indirectly, make you a more humane person. Readings extend widely across literary and non-literary genres, including lyric poetry and the novel, philosophical prose and essays.