"Neither Sweet Nor Decorous: American Poetry in the First Year of the First World War"

Prof. Mark Van Wienen, Professor of English, Northern Illinois University, will speak on American poetry in 1914. Professor Van Wienen is the editor of Rendezvous With Death: American Poems of the Great War (University of Illinois Press, 2002) and the author of Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War (Cambridge University Press, 1997) as well as a number of articles about American literature and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.