Professor: Haley Eazor
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Course Number: E314L
While ecopoetry as a subfield of American poetry has only been defined and developed in the past few decades, American poets’ engagement with the environment, both built and natural, is embedded within America’s poetic roots. In this course, we will trace the relationship between environment and poetry, moving from traditional nature poetry to contemporary lyrical conceptions of the interconnectedness of humans and nature in a time of environmental crises. Integrating discourses on environmental criticism and contemporary poetry, our course will consider the emerging field of ecopoetics within nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century American poetry.
