Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry (U03332)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-U03263

This course re-examines the aesthetics of canonical modern poets. The writers it explores did not just write influential verse, but also criticism. In their essays, letters, books and manifestoes, they rank as some of the most influential contributors to poetics in the twentieth-century. We will read their poetry alongside and against their discursive ideas about art, building-up a sense of their aesthetic contexts, and of their various interconnections and differences. We will also discuss their relevance in the early twenty-first century; and use their work to discuss the idea of formalist criticism, re-examining the tenets of ?New Criticism?.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Passes in English or Scottish Literature 1 and English, Scottish or American literature 2, with a mark of 50 or above at the first attempt in the second year course. Passes in third year courses in the subject area amounting to at least 40 credits.

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English, Scottish or American literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature.

? Costs : Essential course texts.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

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

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

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	10:00	12:00			Room 1.12, 18 Buccleuch Place

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	10:00	12:00	Central

? Additional Class Information : 1 hour a week attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students successfully completing the course will develop:

? a familiarity with both the poetic and the critical writings of a range of influential 20th century poets
? an ability to assess the relationship between the critical thinking of the writers concerned and their own poetic output
? an understanding of the aesthetic and intellectual contexts in which these writers worked, their interconnections and differences
? an awareness of the significance of these writers? work for the development of critical thinking about poetry in the twentieth and twenty first centuries