2023-2024 Catalog

ENG-356 Whitman and Dickinson

An investigation of the lives and works of two of nineteenth-century America's greatest and most original poets. Topics will include types of poetic language and formal structure, the work of the poetic imagination in transforming observations of the world into art, and the ways in which poets process the idea of death and the reality of war. Finally, this course examines Whitman and Dickinson's impact on American popular culture as well as on the writings of modern poets and literary critics.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

Core Curriculum

  • Studies in Literature

Offered

Occasionally