English 317 - American Poetry

Institution:

Colgate University

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Description:

P. Balakian An exploration of the evolution of American poetry from the Romantic era - during which Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman created new poetic forms and ideas out of an emerging American culture. The course deals with the traumatic impact of the Civil War on American culture and the ensuing transition from late Victorian culture to the dynamic period of artistic change defined by Modernism and Word War I. Poets studied include Emerson, Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Stephen Crane, Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Eliot, Hart Crane, Sterling Brown, W.C. Williams, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost. (Post-1800 course.)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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