ENG 355 - AMERICAN POETIC TRADITIONS

College of Arts and Sciences

Credit(s): 3

A course investigating contrasting traditions of American poetry from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several poets are examined within historical and literary contexts, and their poems examined in detail through close reading, with attention paid in particular to stylistic/formal characteristics. Poets studied may include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.

Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.