16.7 4th year Peter Steele. Second semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will be acquainted with a significant range of poems from the last several hundred years;
• will have developed skills in reading them alertly, as to style, preoccupations, context and originality;
• will be aware of the interplay between traditions and individual talents.

This subject explores originality and diversity in poetry of several centuries and different countries, with some attention to context and reception. Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Buckley V The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse Faber Moore G The Penguin Book of American Verse Penguin Wain J ed The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry 2 vols Oxford Not offered in 1996. 16.7 4th year Bernard Muir. Completion of a major in English Language with grades averaging at least H2A. Subjects offered under this rubric may, in some years, have specific prerequisites from among the English Language electives, e. g Introductory Old English Language and Literature (106-224/324). Second semester Three hours of lectures/seminars per week. On completion of this subject students should have gained an advanced understanding of the different historical stages of the English language, and the forces of change that have shaped it from Old English to the present day. A course of advanced lectures dealing with the history of the English Language whose topic may vary from year to year, given by members of the department or visiting scholars. Not more than 6,000 words in written work.