Undergraduate Course: American Modernist Poetry (LLLG07054)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
| Course type | Sandwich |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
This course is an opportunity for a more detailed study of American modernist poetry, following the major modernist poets along the trajectory of their careers, both early (1912-1925) and late (1940s to 1960s). In the first half, it introduces modernist innovations in poetry such as the visual aesthetic (imagism, objectivism), the use of collage and the mythical method, looking at them in the larger context of the poets' lives and the relationship they established with developments in the novel and the visual arts. In the second half, the course interrogates the use of these methods in the mature work of modernists, seeking to gain depth and detail and to show the extent to which poets sought either to refine and extend the strategies of their youth (like Stevens, Pound and H.D.) or develop other forms and methods (like T.S. Eliot or W.C. Williams). |
| Course description |
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 The Imagist movement - London 1912
Week 3 T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land
Week 4 W.C. Williams and the Objectivist aesthetic.
Week 5 Wallace Stevens' Harmonium
Week 6 Marianne Moore. Poems.
Week 7 Ezra Pound. The Cantos.
Week 8 Late Eliot. The Four Quartets.
Week 9 Late Stevens. Auroras of Autumn.
Week 10 Modernism and feminism. H.D. Helen in Egypt.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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 of modernist poets;
* assess the intellectual interactions among American modernist poets;
* form an awareness of the cultural heritage of Europe and the US in the poetry of the last century.
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Reading List
Essential
Eliot, T.S., 2009. Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber.
H.D., 1997. Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet Moore, Marianne. 2003. Complete Poems. London: Faber.
Pound, Ezra., 1998. The Cantos. New York: New Directions.
Stevens, W., 2006. Collected Poems. London: Faber.
Williams, W.C., 1992. Paterson. New York: New Directions.
Williams, W.C., 2000. Collected Poems I. Manchester: Carcanet.
Recommended
Davis, Alex., ed. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Cambridge: CUP. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Close reading and interpretation of texts.
Group discussion.
Composition of discursive essays.
Understanding of interpersonal relationships. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Anya Clayworth
Tel:
Email: aclaywor@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sabine Murdoch
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Sabine.Murdoch@ed.ac.uk |
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