ENGL 444 - American Poetry

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:

Description: Familiarizes students with American poetry from colonization to the present day. Lecture and discussion will emphasize the historical and sociocultural context of the poems. Potential poets of focus include Bradstreet, Wheatley, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Hughes, Stein, Williams, Stevens, Brooks, Bishop, Lowell, Plath, Ammons, and Ashbery.