LIT 5038 - FALL 2026 - KIRBY
Fall
2026
LIT 5038-0002
Studies in Poetry: William Blake: A Poet for the Ages
David Kirby
William Blake is the funny bunny of English Romanticism. Keats and Wordsworth get most of the glory, and Coleridge and Shelley are not far behind, but Blake is not only an eye-popping read in his own right but also a precursor to Whitman, Ginsberg, and the poets of today. We’ll study Blake in his own time but also ours.
This course fulfills the general literature requirement for one course in 1660-1900. It also satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Area of Concentration: Literary and Cultural Studies of the Long 18th and 19th centuries; and a Literary Genre (Poetry).