Word and Image from William Blake to Claudia Rankine

Undergraduate

This course investigates a visionary tradition of British and American poets and artists who find in the interface of visual art and poetry a space for political dissent, aesthetic experiment, spiritual quest, and utopian vision, in which word and image collaborate to enlarge the range of implication and possibility in both literature and art. Classes draw on collections at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and Beinecke Library. Writers and artists studied include William Blake, Hart Crane, Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph Cornell, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Susan Howe, and Claudia Rankine. For English majors, a junior seminar. For majors in other departments, an upper-level course in English, preferably in poetry. WR , HU Th 9:25am-11:20am