Seventeenth-Century Poetic Genres (P02342)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P02342

This seminar course will be concerned with main poetic genres of the seventeenth century: namely epigram, eley, ode, epistle, satire, pastoral eclogue, georgic, estate poem, topographical poem, epic. Emergent as well as traditional groupings will be considered, together with their social, historical, and literary contexts. While the emphasis will necessarily be on canonical genres, we may take side glances at other types and subjects: emblems, buildings, gardens, faeries, blackness, grasshoppers.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Costs : Essential Course Texts

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students wil have:

- an understanding of the main generic groupings of English poetry in the long seventeenth century, their topics and forms.

- an understanding of how far seventeenth century genres can be considered as defining classes, and how far looser groupings.

- an understanding of how individual genres changed during the seventeenth century.

- an understanding of the interrelation of genres and of changes in their mutual ranking in the hierarchies of the period.

- an understanding of how genres altered in response to cultural and historical pressures.