Course details

Name: ENGL - 324

Title: AMERICAN POETRY TO 1940

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
In this course we will attend closely to the forms, modes and themes of American poetry from its inception through the first four decades of the twentieth century. American poetry before the beginning of the Second World War is a kaleidoscopic ferment, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to the great syntheses of high Modernism and beyond. This is a period in which verse confronts cultural and technological innovation, economic revolution, war, racism, alienation, and consumerism—a lack of calm before the mid-century storm. From Gertrude Stein's "Once in English they said America. Was it English to them" to Langston Hughes's "America never was America to me," these poetries quest and question.

This course will introduce you to a representative sampling of important work done by American poets before 1940, including (in addition to those mentioned above) Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, and more.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)

Teaching Faculty: Robbins Michael (robbinsm)

Is course canceled: No