Unit name | Approaches to Poetry |
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Unit code | ENGL20099 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Wootten |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of English |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will train students in skills necessary for the critical appreciation of poetry. It will explore such matters as voice, genre, poetic form (stanzaic form, metre, rhyme, etc) and historical context. The unit will serve as a basis for the study of poetic texts within the later literature units in the English single and joint honours degree programmes. Texts studied will be from a wide historical range.
Aims:
By the end of the course students should:
3 lectures and 1 tutorial per week.
Detailed reading lists will be provided by individual tutors at the start of the academic year.