ENGL 354 - Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

3 HU, WR
Second Semester. A comparative study of America’s two most important 19th-century poets: Whitman, the exuberant poet-wanderer and Dickinson, the thoughtful soul who selected her own society. We will examine some of the key contexts in and against which they wrote, including Puritanism, Transcendentalism, and the Civil War. Texts will include cycles such as Dickinson’s bridal, riddle, definition, nature, prisoner, and beyond-the-grave groups and Whitman’s Children of Adam, Calamus, Leaves of Grass, and Songs of Insurrection. American, 1700-1900.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”.
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Mr. Deppman

Credits: 3 hours