ENGL 250F

Whitman and Dickinson

This seminar on two of America's greatest poets, Whitman and Dickinson, focuses primarily on the poetry, but also on letters and prose pieces. Students read and discuss criticism on each writer, and study cultural and historical contexts of these two contemporaneous but antithetical poets. Study includes traditional and feminist studies of Dickinson and Cultural Studies of Whitman. Forms a dialogue between these two remarkable and remarkably different poets; students join in that dialogue.

Units: 3.0