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 106-078 Poetry: The Versatile Imagination

Note

Formerly available as 106-422. Students who have completed 106-422 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Peter Steele

Prerequisites

Usually admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in English, see Honours entry.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 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 totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • Ferguson, Salter & Stallworthy (eds), Norton Anthology of Poetry. (4th ed).


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