AMST 4667

Forms of the New: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

This course gives an in-depth reading of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Some readers consider Whitman and Dickinson the two greatest American poets of any century, and one signal of that achievement is the ways in which both writers developed new kinds of poetry, opening up new possibilities for themselves and for other writers. We place both poets in the historical contexts of the nineteenth century, and we also consider the critical contexts of the century since their deaths.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

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