Postgraduate Course: Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry (ENLI11052)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course re-examines the aesthetics of canonical modern poets, including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and W. H. Auden. Most of the writers it explores did not just write influential verse, but also criticism. In their essays, letters, books and manifestoes, some of them rank amongst the most influential contributors to poetics in the twentieth-century. With a central interest in asking how modern poems work, we will read their poetry alongside and against their discursive ideas about art. We will engage in close readings of poems, asking how their manifestoes are manifested in their art. We will be interested in potential differences between the style of poems and discursive arguments about that style. And we will chart the various interconnections and differences between these poets, building-up a sense of their aesthetic contexts. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | Room G.26, 19 George Square | 2-11 | | 10:00 - 12:00 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 2, Tuesday, 10:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. Room G.26 19 George Square, 24th September 2012 |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students successfully completing the course will develop:
- a familiarity with both the poetic and the critical writings of a range of influential 20th century poets
- an ability to assess the relationship between the critical thinking of the writers concerned and their own poetic output
- an understanding of the aesthetic and intellectual contexts in which these writers worked, their interconnections and differences
- an awareness of the significance of these writers' work for the development of critical thinking about poetry in the twentieth and twenty first centuries
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Assessment Information
| 1 essay of 4,000 words |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
WEEK 1 INTRODUCTION
WEEK 2 W.B. YEATS
WEEK 3 T.S. ELIOT
WEEK 4 EZRA POUND
WEEK 5 ROBERT FROST
WEEK 6 WALLACE STEVENS
WEEK 7 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
WEEK 8 MARIANNE MOORE
WEEK 9 W.H. AUDEN
WEEK 10 LOUIS MACNEICE
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Core Texts:
Auden, W. H., Selected Poems. (London: Faber, 1979).
Eliot, T. S., Collected Poems, 1909-1962. (London: Faber, 1974).
Frost, Robert, The Poetry of Robert Frost. (London: Vintage, 2001).
MacNeice, Louis, Selected Poems. (London: Faber, 1988).
Moore, Marianne, The Poems of Marianne Moore. (New York: Penguin, 2005).
Pound, Ezra, Selected Poems 1908-1969. (London: Faber, 2004).
Stevens, Wallace, Collected Poems. (London: Faber, 2006).
Williams, William Carlos, Selected Poems. (London: Penguin, 2005).
Yeats, W. B., The Major Works. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Recommended Reading:
Auden, W. H., The Dyer¿s Hand and Other Essays (Faber and Faber, 1975).
______, Collected Poems (Faber and Faber. 2004).
Cook, Jon (ed). Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 (London: Blackwell. 2004).
Eliot, T. S., Selected Prose of T S. Eliot (Faber and Faber, 1975).
Frost, Robert, Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America, 1995).
MacNeice, Louis, Modern Poetry, Oxford: OUP, 1938.
______, The Poetry of W.B. Yeats (1941), 2nd ed., London: Faber, 1967.
______, Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.
______, Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
Moore, Marianne, The Complete Prose (Faber and Faber, 1987).
______, The Selected Letters (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997).
Pound, Ezra, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (New Directions, 1968).
______, The Cantos of Ezra Pound (W. W. Norton & Co Ltd, 1996).
______, Pound: Poems and Translations (Library of America, 2003).
Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O¿Clair (eds.), The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (3rd ed). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Stevens, Wallace. Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America, 1997).
______, The Letters of Wallace Steven's (University of California Press, 1997).
Williams, W. C.. Paterson (New Directions, 1963).
______, Imaginations: Five Experimental Prose Pieces (New Directions, 1971).
______, Collected Poems, Vols. I and 2 (Carcanet, 2000).
Yeats, W. B., The Letters of W.B. Yeats, ed. Allan Wade (New York: Macmillan, 1955).
______, Essays and Introductions (Macmillan, 1962).
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | P-C |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alan Gillis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3050
Email: Alan.Gillis@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Natalie.Carthy@ed.ac.uk |
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