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Beginning with late nineteenth-century poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, the founding parents—or grandparents?—of modern American poetry, we will devote most of the semester to the first half of the twentieth century, when an astounding number and variety of original poetic voices proliferated in America. We will study selected works of a wide range of poets, including Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, e.e.cummings, Langston Hughes, and William Carlos Williams, among many others. |