(731637-3) American Poetry
(American Poetry)

Selections from Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Freneau, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, WC Williams, Cummings, Roethke, Snyder, Wilbur (mostly, one or two poems each) will be studied to see the development of the poetic art in the United States. Students will be expected to write critical appreciations of individual poems, the general themes, and the stylistic features.

Text:
Allison, A. et al. ( Eds.) The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. 1989.