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Poetry in America: From the Mayflower to Emerson
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This course covers American poetry in cultural context through the year 1850.
Total fee | ₹1,000 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Course Level | UG Certificate |
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- This course covers American poetry in cultural context through the year 1850
- The course begins with Puritan poets, some orthodox, some rebel spirits, who wrote and lived in early New England
- Focusing on Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth, among others, we explore the interplay between mortal and immortal, Europe and wilderness, solitude and sociality in English North America
- The second part of the course spans the poetry of America's early years, directly before and after the creation of the Republic
- We examine the creation of a national identity through the lens of an emerging national literature, focusing on such poets as Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others
- Distinguished guest discussants include writer Michael Pollan, economist Larry Summers, Vice President Al Gore, Mayor Tom Menino, and others
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Elisa New
Designation : Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University
Jesse Raber
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