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ENGL 182M - Walt Whitman: Long Island Poet
Walt Whitman: turbulent, fleshy, radical, Long Islander. He was a
printer and poet, a gay man who claimed he had fathered several
children, a government clerk who nursed thousands of dying Civil War
soldiers. During his long life he witnessed and wrote about the
nineteenth century’s most profound changes—the rise of Manhattan and
its working classes, war and westward expansion, market opportunity and
corporate greed. This course will examine Whitman’s major works as well
as works by contemporaries like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville,
Frederick Douglass, and Marion Harland.
Prerequisites & Notes
10293: M-Th, 6:10-9:20 p.m.; Fichtelberg; 135 Mason
Credits: 3 s.h.
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