İDE223

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

This course will provide students with an insight into American Poetry, a poetic tradition closely related to but distinct from English poetry. gives. It shows them how different poetic traditions interact. British colony but continued to assert its cultural dominance in the literary developments of the twentieth century. to understand the cultural and literary traditions of a country.

The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Edited by Baym et al., New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995.
Fredman, Stephen. A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Wiley-Blackwell (2005)
Lehman, David & Brehm, John. The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Oxford University Press (2006)

This course aims to provide a survey of American poetry from its beginnings to the present. Students will study learn about important social, political, historical and cultural developments, poetic movements and traditions. Read and analyze prominent poems and learn about major poets.

1. Students will have knowledge about American poetry and poets of different periods and movements
2. Students will have knowledge of the historical development of the American poetic tradition
3. Students will be able to analyze and interpret major works of American poetry in terms of both form and content.

Week 1: Introduction to American Poetry
Week 2: Indian Hymns and Songs; Colonialism and Early American Poetry; The Declaration of Independence and the 1700- American Poetry between 1820
Week 3: 19th Century: Industrialization and Transcendentalism; The Search for an American Literature: Henry W. Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe
Week 4: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Week 5: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
Week 6: Early 20th Century: Modernism and More: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens
Week 7: William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings
Week 8: Amy Lowell, H.D., Gertrude Stein
Week 9: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Dunbar
Week 10: Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes
Week 11: 1950s to the Present: Experimentalism, Pluralism and Performance: Black Mountain Poets, San Francisco Renaissance, The Beats, New York School
Week 12: Confessive Poets, Black Poets, Black Art Movement, Women's Movement, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Final Assignment 30 %