Undergraduate Course: 20th Century American Poetry (LLLG07027)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.
This course aims to explore the history of American poetry in the 20th century and provide a guide to the most interesting and beautiful poems written in the United States from the Modernist revolution of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to the postmodern era. |
| Course description |
Week 1 Introduction.
Week 2 The Discovery of the Image. Ezra Pound and H.D.
Week 3 W.C. Williams and the New York avant-garde.
Week 4 Europe in ruins. The Waste Land
Week 5 The quiet genius: Wallace Stevens
Week 6 Ezra Pound and the war - The Pisan Cantos
Week 7 The Beat generation. Alan Ginsberg and Frank O'Hara
Week 8 Confessional Poets: Robert Lowell, John Berryman and Sylvia Plath
Week 9 Postmodernity - the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and Susan Howe.
Week 10 The other avant-garde: John Ashberry and A. R. Ammons.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
* understand the textual strategies and working assumptions at the root of poets' work
* assess the interactions between poetry and issues of voice, race, gender, history and art.
* form an awareness of the poetic traditions and diversity in America.
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Reading List
Essential
Gray, Richard. 1990. American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, London: Longman.
Kenner, Hugh. 1971.The Pound Era. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Recommended
Kenner, Hugh. 1974. A Homemade World: the American Modernist Writers, New York: A. Knopf. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
* Critical reading and analysis
* Participation in discussion
* Collaborative working
* Composition of discursive essays |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Anya Clayworth
Tel:
Email: aclaywor@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sabine Murdoch
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Sabine.Murdoch@ed.ac.uk |
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