HENK0361EU Engelsk - Frit emne: American Poetry from the Colonial Period to the Mid 20th century

In this course we will follow the contours and direction of American Poetry from its Puritan beginnings to the post-World War II period, examining literary traditions, movements and schools, intellectual currents and shaping forces and, of course, individual poets and poems.

The poets to be studied will include: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Philip Freneau, Walt Whitman, Robinson Jeffers, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams, Marianne Moore, and others.