A study of canonical and popular poets of the American nineteenth century. Students will read poems by Edgar Allen Poe, Lydia Sigourney, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frances E.W. Harper, and Stephen Crane as well as historical essays and literary criticism. Category C.

Prerequisite: Any 200-level ENGL course with a D or better.