2016-2017 Catalog

ENG 387 Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Intensive study of poems, poets, and poetic forms in the United States from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century. Particular focus on Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, and Melville. [H, W]

Prerequisite

ENG 205 and a literary history course (ENG 206, ENG 210, ENG 211, ENG 212, or ENG 213), or permission of the instructor.