Course Description
British and Irish poetry since the 1890s.
Athena Title
20th Cent British Irish Poetry
Prerequisite
Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course)
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, students, having read a substantial body of literature, will be able to discuss the assigned works (orally and in writing) with a considerable degree of critical sophistication, to reread them with pleasure, to read and enjoy other works from the period, and to converse with fellow students about texts and issues related to the subject matter of the course.
Topical Outline
The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to instructor and semester to semester. The topics will consist of selected works by various authors, to be read outside of class and discussed in class, examined individually and comparatively in the context of the times and the circumstances of their composition. Periodically during the semester, students will perform a number of graded tasks, including some combination of examinations, essays, and oral presentations. Works to be studied may include the following: Yeats, Selected Poems; Hardy, Selected Poems; Auden, Selected Poems; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems; Silkin, ed., The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry; Thomas, Selected Poems; Larkin, Whitsun Weddings; Gunn, Selected Poems; Smith, Selected Poems; Hill, Mercian Hymns