ENG 154 - American Poetry

Institution:

Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This course will present a relatively broad and fairly rapid survey of major American poets. We will dwell mainly on three large historical periods: the nineteenth century of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman; the early twentieth century of Robert Frost, Hart Crane, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens; and the contemporary period (today), when there are more American poets being published than ever before. (These twenty-first century poets will probably be represented by figures like Robert Pinsky and Louise Glück.) In order even to begin grasping this historical range and poetic diversity, we'll need to move at a pace of about one poet per week, but we'll hope to sustain a fairly serious engagement with each of our poets in turn, while thinking about how each of them imagines (or re-imagines) the idea of America and American discourse. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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