Walt Whitman
ENGLISH 90WW
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Description
One of the major poets in the English language, Whitman also became an emblem of an American possibility, a beacon of what we now call queer identities, and a catalyst for modernism worldwide. How did he do it? What makes the poems so good? How did he react to his own time, and to the writings of his contemporaries? And how did the writers who came after him learn from him? We'll read all his poems, some of his prose, other writers from that era (including Emerson, Douglass and Louisa May Alcott), and later creators who looked back to him.
Class Notes
This course satisfies the “1700-1900 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
English
Course Component
Seminar
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Undergraduate Students
