AJL14154 Modern Anglophone Poetry 1900-2016

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D.
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
Tue 14:00–15:40 G25, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJL01002 Practical English II || AJ01002 Practical English 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 15/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will cover developments in twentieth century British poetry, moving from the work of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and D.H Lawrence in the earlier part of the century to that of Louis MacNeice, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison, and J.H. Prynne in the later part.
Learning outcomes
Students who have taken the course will have gained a basic understanding of developments in twentieth century British poetry and the ability to write a close analysis of a poem or series of poems in relation to this understanding.
Syllabus
  • Week 0: (10.9):ORIENTATION WEEK: NO CLASS Week 1: (24.9):Introductory Week 2: (1.10): Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones; The Voice;The Self-Unseeing; At Castle Boterel;Last Words to a Dumb Friend; The Darkling Thrush Week 3: (8.10):W.B. Yeats (1): The Lake Isle of Innisfree; When You Are Old; The Secret Rose; O, Do Not Love Too Long; September 1913; Easter 1916 Week 4:(15.10):W.B. Yeats(2):The Second Coming; A Prayer for my Daughter; Sailing to Byzantium; Leda and the Swan; The Tower; Among Schoolchildren; Byzantium; Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop; The Circus Animals' Desertion Week 5:(22:10):Ezra Pound:1) LUSTRA: The Garret; The Garden; Albatre; Salvation; A Pact; Dance Figure; The Rest; The Bath Tub; Liu Ch'e; In a Station of the Metro; Alba; Shop Girl; L'Art 1910; The Tea Shop; The Three Poets; 2) HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY (all); 3. (Pisan)Canto LXXIV Week 6:(29.10):T.S.Eliot (1):The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Preludes: Gerontion: The Hollow Men Week 7:(5.11): NO LESSON:LESSON TO BE REPLACED IN READING WEEK Week 8:(12.11): T.S.Eliot (2):The Waste Land; Four Quartets Week 9:(19.11): READING WEEK: REPLACEMENT LESSON: D. H. Lawrence: BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS:Snake; Lui et Elle; Man and Bat;Figs;Medlars and Sorb-Apples; PANSIES:How Beastly the Bourgeois Is; The Oxford Voice; Give Us Gods; Little Fish; Self-Pity; Leave Sex alone; The Mess of Love; A Sane Revolution; Wages; LAST POEMS: Bavarian Gentians; The Ship of Death Week 10:(26.11):Louis MacNeice:Autumn Journal Week 11:(3.12): Philip Larkin (1): Going; Wants; Days; I Remember, I Remember; Church Going; An Arundel Tomb;Mr Bleaney; Ignorance; First Sight; The Whitsun Weddings Home is so Sad; Afternoons; Talking in Bed; Here; Dockery and Son; High Windows; Annus Mirabilis; Homage to a Government; This Be the Verse; Going, Going Week 12:(10.12):Seamus Heaney:Digging, The Grauballe Man; Punishment; Act of Union;:Geoffrey Hill: Ovid in the Third Reich' September Song, The Songbook of Sebastian Arruruz; Mercian Hymns (extract); Tenebrae (extracts)Ted Hughes:The Thought Fox, Hawk Roosting;Ravens. Week 13:(17.12);J.H. Prynne: The Glacial Question, Unsolved; Royal Fern; Treatment in The Field; Chromatin; Tony Harrison: Them & uz, V.
Literature
  • Prynne, J.H. Poems Newcastle upon Tyne Bloodaxe 1999
  • Lawrence, D.H. The Complete Poems London Penguin 1977
  • Larkin, Philip Collected Poems Faber and Faber 1988
  • Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems Faber and Faber 1974
  • MacNeice,Louis Collected Poems London Faber and Faber 2007
  • Harrison, Tony V Newcastle upon Tyne Bloodaxe 2nd ed. 1989
  • Hill, Geoffrey Collected Poems Harmondsworth Penguin 1985
  • Pound, Ezra Personae: Collected Shorter Poems Faber and Faber 1990
  • Harrison, Tony Selected Poems Harmondsworth Penguin 1984
  • Hardy, Thomas The Oxford Authors Oxford OUP 1984
  • Larkin, Philip Collected Poems London Faber and Faber 1988
  • Ted Hughes'New selected poems'. Edited by Neil Roberts. Penrith, Calif.: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007, 82 p. ISBN 9781847600318. info
  • YEATS, W. B. The collected poems of W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989, 564 s. ISBN 0717115852. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through a combination of lecture, small group and whole class analysis and discussion.
Assessment methods
The course will be assessed through a combination of attendance and oral contribution (55%) plus a 6-8 page essay (40%)to be submitted to my e-mail address in the IS (33697@muni.cz) and nowhere else. If you have not received a grade within 3 days please let me know.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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