Postgraduate Course: Elements of Poetry One: The Mind's Eye (Distance Learning) (ENLI11167)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course consists of monthly, synchronous, online seminars (webinars), online workshops (writing forums) and individual consultations. Webinars will focus on theoretical and reflective exploration of key topics and tailored writing assignments will be set. Asynchronous, tutor- hosted writing forums will take place three times per year. Each will last for twelve days. Students will present and critique work in progress by their peers. Students will also consult five times per annum with a writing tutor and at the end of the year submit circa 15 poems for assessment. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students who complete the course successfully will attain a broadened awareness of stylistic possibilities in poetry. By practice they will develop compositional skills in a way that complements more general English studies. |
Assessment Information
| Submission of 15 poems (100%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Webinars: One per month
1. Poetry v Verse: definitions and distinctions
2. ¿A wet black bough¿: the legacy of Imagism
3. ¿Only the Marvellous is Beautiful¿: the persistence of Surrealism
4. Exoskeletons and White Space: Considering the Concrete
5. The Word on the Street: Poetry in the Vernacular
6. Abstractions, Ambiguities and Enigmas
7. Language: Use or Abuse: the poetic versus poetry
8. Private Voice, Public Voice
9. Correspondences: Association, metaphor and symbol
10. Nothing Not Giving Messages: How poetry means
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| Transferable skills |
Students will gain a facility for economy of expression, awareness of the fine nuances of language, acute attention to detail and the ability to take work from an early draft to final polish, skills applicable to all written work. |
| Reading list |
Addonizio & Laux, The Poet's Companion
Apollinaire, Guillaume, Calligrammes
Auden, W.H., The Dyer's Hand and other essays
Alvarez, Al, The Writer¿s Voice
Basho,Matsuo, Of Love and Barley
Boiseau, Bar-Nadar and Wallace, Writing Poetry
Borges, Jorge Luis, This Craft of Verse
Cockburn & Finlay (eds) The Order of Things: anthology of shaped and patterned poems
Finlay, Alec (ed), Verse Chain: sharing haiku and renga
Eliot, T.S., The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
Fenollosa, Ernest, The Chinese Characters as Medium for Poetry
Germain, E.B.,(ed) English & American Surrealist Poetry
Koch, Kenneth, Making your Own Days
Leonard, Tom, Intimate Voices
Jones, Peter, Imagist Poetry
Pound, Ezra, An ABC of Reading
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | creative writing, online learning, poetry |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dylis Rose
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Course secretary | Miss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
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