Poets are citizens, lovers, artists. Class discusses major poems by Whitman, Baudelaire, Rilke, Mallarmé, T.S. Eliot, Anna Akhmatova celebrating American nationhood, protesting world war, or Soviet dictatorship. Topics include myth, self-assertion, love and intimacy, decadence, ethics, history, a mother's voice. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Kaplan