This course examines the visionary tradition – a heretical medley of trauma, trance, introspection, formal innovation, and apocalyptic speculation – in key poets and prose writers from William Blake to Sylvia Plath and James Merrill. Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 4163 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4411 3.00, AS/EN 4411 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4163 3.00 was AS/EN 4411 3.00