106-422 Poetry: The Versatile Imagination

Formerly available as 106-078. Students who have completed 106-078 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Usually admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in English or Creative Writing.

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.

• read attentively a variety of works;

• write both critically and lucidly;

• discuss coherently and patiently;

• both think and change their minds.

An essay of 5000 words for 4th year students or 6000 words for masters students 100% (due at the end of semester).

• Ferguson, Salter & Stallworthy (eds), Norton Anthology of Poetry. (5th ed).