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Undergraduate Course: 20th Century American Poetry (LLLG07027)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.

This course aims to explore the history of American poetry in the 20th century and provide a guide to the most interesting and beautiful poems written in the United States from the Modernist revolution of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to the postmodern era.
Course description Week 1 Introduction.

Week 2 The Discovery of the Image. Ezra Pound and H.D.

Week 3 W.C. Williams and the New York avant-garde.

Week 4 Europe in ruins. The Waste Land

Week 5 The quiet genius: Wallace Stevens

Week 6 Ezra Pound and the war - The Pisan Cantos

Week 7 The Beat generation. Alan Ginsberg and Frank O'Hara

Week 8 Confessional Poets: Robert Lowell, John Berryman and Sylvia Plath

Week 9 Postmodernity - the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and Susan Howe.

Week 10 The other avant-garde: John Ashberry and A. R. Ammons.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
* understand the textual strategies and working assumptions at the root of poets' work
* assess the interactions between poetry and issues of voice, race, gender, history and art.
* form an awareness of the poetic traditions and diversity in America.
Reading List
Essential
Gray, Richard. 1990. American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, London: Longman.
Kenner, Hugh. 1971.The Pound Era. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Recommended
Kenner, Hugh. 1974. A Homemade World: the American Modernist Writers, New York: A. Knopf.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills * Critical reading and analysis
* Participation in discussion
* Collaborative working
* Composition of discursive essays
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Anya Clayworth
Tel:
Email: aclaywor@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Sabine Murdoch
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Sabine.Murdoch@ed.ac.uk
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