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Classic stories and poems of American literature are found in the pages of Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, Whitman, Faulkner, and many others. Here is the opportunity to gain an extraordinary familiarity with each of these authors within a manageable amount of time, as well as review the great works already known.

Twelve lectures trace the classics of American literature of the 19th century. The course links great American writers and the qualities that mark their works as masterpieces of American literature. Discover how their awareness of the past is kept alive through their works but also changes as each generation discovers and interprets these works anew.

Twelve lectures trace the classics of American literature of the 20th century. The course links great American writers and the qualities that mark their works as masterpieces of American literature. Discover how their awareness of the past is kept alive through their works but also changes as each generation discovers and interprets these works anew.

Twelve lectures trace the classics of American literature between the 18th and 19th century. The course links great American writers and the qualities that mark their works as masterpieces of American literature. Discover how their awareness of the past is kept alive through their works but also changes as each generation discovers and interprets these works anew.