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Academic Year 2003/2004

Romanticism in America
ENGL 264 SP

This course shows how selected readings in American prose and poetry develop Romantic topics including the following: the relation of nature and consciousness; imagination as a way of knowing; individualism and other ideas of freedom. The readings are by canonical 19th- and 20th-Century poets from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Wallace Stevens, and some less canonical 20th-Century ones.

MAJOR READINGS

Poetry and prose by R.W. Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Mary Oliver.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly response papers, several short critical papers, take-home final.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

ENGL201 or equivalent preparation.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: ENGL201 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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