ENG 493S WHITMAN, DICKINSON, & AFTER

WHITMAN, DICKINSON, AND THEIR LITERARY AFTERLIVES

A deep exploration of the works of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and their literary afterlives. Students will read both poets' oeuvres in relation to their lives and times, with particular attention to the contexts of gender, sexuality, science, the nonhuman environment, and the Civil War. Students will also consider their literary legacies by reading such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, Marilynne Robinson, and Susan Howe.