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ENGL227 American poetry: Seers and Doubters

10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Literature unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation A range of teaching procedures including lectures and tutorials.

This unit explores a selection of visionary poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Is themes might include: nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideas about revelation, the nature of the visionary and the language used to depict it, the relation of the divine and the human, and the aftermath of revelation.