These categories encompass works by Lydia Sigourney, Edgar Allen Poe, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frances E.W. Harper, John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Piatt and others. Ellen Louise Hart, Martha Nell Smith. Paris Press, 1999. We will also make frequent use of materials available at McHenry reserves and on the World Wide Web. Slug Books is located at 224 Cardiff Place, by 7-11 and Bay Federal Credit Union, two blocks from the base of campus.
X stands for a xeroexed handout to be given in class.
An introduction to poetic form. Salon society and the code of passion. The male poet as public figure vs. the forgotten female poet. Male sentimentalism, middlebrow taste, and the professionalism of poetry. 20th-century editing issues.