FF:AJ16059 Post 1945 British Poetry - Course Information

AJ16059 Post-1945 British Poetry, Culture and Society

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Wed 14:10–15:45 G31

Prerequisites (in Czech)

( AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II ) && AJ06002 Intro. to British Studies II

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course will look at developments in post-1945 British poetries in their social and cultural context, taking into account questions of ethnicity, class, gender, region and nationality, sexuality, religion, philosophy and aesthetics.The aims in this semester's course will be to focus on a relatively small number of English poets in order to bring out differences in their cultural backgrounds and preoccupations and the ways in which they introduce new elements of consideration,in terms of both form and content,through a process of close-reading and discussion,culminating in an analytical essay.

Syllabus

• Week 1: Sept.18th Orientation week: No lesson Week 2: Sept.25thIntroductory: 1)Shakespeare: Sonnets 129,130,138; 2)J.H. Prynne: Royal Fern Week 3: Oct.2nd:1)Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel; 2)W.B. Yeats:Leda and the Swan Week 4: Oct. 9th:)D. H. Lawrence: Snake, Lui et Elle, Self-Pity, To Women As Far As I'm Concerned, The English Are So Nice Ezra Pound: In A Station of The Metro, The Garden, Week 5: Oct.16th: Ezra Pound (2)Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (I-XII). T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of Arthur J. Prufrock. Week 6: Oct. 23rd:Philip Larkin: (1)Church Going; Mr Bleaney; An Arundel Tomb; Home is So Sad; Afternoons;Talking in Bed Week 7: Oct 30th:READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 8: Nov. 6th:Philip Larkin:(2)Here;High Windows; Annus Mirabilis; Posterity; Homage to a Government; This Be The Verse; Going,Going Week 9: Nov. 13th:Ted Hughes:Thought Fox; Pike; Six Young Men;Hawk Roosting; Stealing Trout on a May Morning;Pibroch; Wodwo; Crow's First Lesson; How Water Began to Play; Ravens; February 17th;Sheep; Coming Down through Somerset. Week 10: Nov. 20th: 1) Geoffrey Hill: Ovid in the Third Reich;September Song;The Songbook of Sebastian Arruruz; Mercian Hymns; The Pentecost Castle; 2)Seamus Heaney:The Tollund Man; 3)Michael Longley: Wounds WeeK 11:Nov. 27th: 1)Tony Harrison: Them & [uz]; A Good Read; 'v'. 2) Edwin Morgan:The First Men on Mercury; The Loch Ness Monster; Stobhill; 3) Tom Leonard: Poetry;Moral Philosophy;Unrelated Incidents (3)'this is thi/ six a clock/ news' Week 12: Dec.4th: Basil Bunting: Briggflatts; What The Chairman Told Tom;Barry McSweeney: Jury Vet (extract); David Jones: In Parenthesis (extract); D.Thomas:Fern Hill R.S. Thomas:Welsh Landscape Week 13:Dec.11th.J.H. Prynne (1): Royal Fern; L'Extase de M. Poher.; Peter Reading: February 15th:Parallel Texts: Ukulele Music

Literature

• Auden, W.H. Selected Poems (1979) London Faber & Faber
• Thomas, R.S. Collected Poems 1945 - 1990 (2000) London Phoenix
• Reading, Peter Essential Reading (1986) London Secker & Warburg
• Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems (1974) London Faber & Faber
• MACDIARMID, Hugh. Selected poems. Edited by Michael Grieve - Alan Riach. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, xxxiii, 32. ISBN 0-14-018754-5. info
• BUNTING, Basil. The complete poems. Edited by Richard Caddel. Oxford University Press pbk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, xii, 226. ISBN 0192822829. info
• HEANEY, Seamus. New selected poems, 1966-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1990, x, 245. ISBN 0571143725. info
• LARKIN, Philip. Collected poems. Edited by Anthony Thwaite. London: Marvell Press, 1988, xxvii, 330. ISBN 0571151965. info
• HILL, Geoffrey and David A. HILL. Collected poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985, 207 s. ISBN 0-14-008383-9. info
• HARRISON, Tony. Selected poems [Harrison, 1984]. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, 203 s. ISBN 0-14-007158-X. info
• HUGHES, Ted. Selected poems : 1957-1981. London: Faber and Faber, 1982, 238 s. ISBN 0571119166. info

Teaching methods

The course will be taught by a combination of close reading and small and full group discussion.By the end of the course students will have written an essay indicating their ability to analyse elements of the poetry discussed on the course in their cultural context.

Assessment methods

Assessment will be by essay (5-8 pages; to be submitted by the exam date)(subject of essay must relate to texts taught during course and, in this course to those texts which are post-1945)(60%) and class participation and attendance (40%).Teaching will take the form close reading, reading aloud and related discussion.The essay has the status of an exam and needs to be registered for. Essays must be submitted in hard copy form.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

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