The Subject of Poetry: Marvell to Coleridge (U02762)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-3-U02762

This course will take students through a range of different poetic forms: epistles, country House poems, landscape Poems, Elegy, 'Conversation poems'.

It will allow students to trace, through the changing the poetic voice, ideas about class, gender, property, religion, nationalism.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Essential course texts

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students taking the course will become familiar with the dominant themes of poetry in the eighteenth century, and explore changes in the 'I' of poetry including such topics as the nature of interiority, the way the poetic voice speculates on the form and function of poetry, the visual scope of the poetic narrative.

By reading different verse forms and styles students will be made aware of the ways in which techniques such as rhyme, rhythm, metre and diction produce different modes of poetic voice. Students will refine their skills in close reading of literary language and gain a broad sense of the historical development of poetry in the period.