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 106-422 The Versatile Imagination: Reading Poetry

Credit Points

16.7 4th year

Coordinator

Peter Steele

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
  • Ferguson, Salter & Stallworthy eds, Norton Anthology of Poetry. 4th Edition.
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