American Lyric Across Borders (Poetry)

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After Whitman and Dickinson's Romantic call to the world beyond U.S. borders, this course turns to the controversy between the rootedness of Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes and the internationalism of Stevens, Eliot, H.D. (including the Sino-philia of Pound), both of which can also be seen as belated forms of Romanticism. Possible attention to later explorers of such issues as Robert Duncan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, and Frank O'Hara; to the populist challenge of song lyric (blues, tin pan alley, folk, rock, hip-hop); or to the problems of translation and translatability. 001376