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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-422 The Versatile Imagination: Reading Poetry

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Peter Steele

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

One 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description:

This subject explores originality and diversity in poetry of several centuries and different countries, with some attention to context and reception. Students who complete this subject should be acquainted with a significant range of poems from the last several hundred years; have developed skills in reading them alertly, as to style, preoccupations, context and originality; and be aware of the interplay between traditions and individual talents.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • G Moore, The Penguin Book of American Verse, Penguin.
  • J Wain ed, The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, 2 vols Oxford.
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