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

Tue 12:30–14:05 zruseno D22

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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

This year's course will look at developments in post-1945 British poetries in the context of earlier developments, focusing particularly on relations between aspects of English and American poetries.During the course students will discuss ways to relate formal aspects of verbal expression to broader areas of social and cultural concern in the poems considered and at the end of the course to produce an essay analysing aspect of the poetries discussed in comparable fashion.

Syllabus

• Week 1:Introductory:Shakespeare/Prynne Week 2:W. Blake:Songs of Experience:London; The Garden of Love;The Sick Rose; The Tyger; The Clod and The Pebble; The Chimney Sweeper W.Wordsworth:Lucy Poems: 'Of I had heard of Lucy Gray';"Three years she grew in sun and shower; "A slumber did my spirit seal";"Strange fits of passion I have known"; "She dwelt among untrodden ways"; Resolution and Independence Week 3:A)Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush; Drummer Hodge; A Broken Appointment; After A Journey.B) A.E Housman: A Shropshire Lad: I, V, XII, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XXVI, XXVIII, XL; C) Edward Thomas: Adlestrop; Like The Touch of Rain: A Private: Over the Hills. D) W.E. Henley: Invictus E) Rudyard Kipling:If -; Gunga Din F) Rupert Brooke:1914 V: The Good Soldier; G) Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth. Week 4:Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: D.H. Lawrence: Lui et Elle: Self Pity: Snake; The English Are So Nice Week 5: W.H. Auden September 1939: T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets:Little Gidding: Part One; Dylan Thomas : A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, of a Child in London Week 6: Philip Larkin: Here;Church Going: Mr Bleaney's Room;Home; Posterity: Homage to a Government: This Be The Verse; Going, Going Week 7: Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting: Pike:Crow Poems: Ravens; Feb.17th Week 8: READING WEEK Week 9: Sylvia Plath: Daddy; Tulips; Lady Lazarus: Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning; Wendy Cope: from Strugnell's Sonnets; Grace Nichols: Fat Black Lady poems; Penny Windsor: various. (other)Women poets: various Week 10: Geoffrey Hill: Ovid in the Third Reich; September Song: Songbook of Sebastian Arruruz: Mercian Hymns; J.H. Prynne: Royal Fern Week 11:Basil Bunting: Briggflatts (Part One);What The Chairman Told Tom: David Jones: In Parenthesis: The Anathemata; R.S. Thomas: Welcome To Wales; Welsh Landscape Week 12:Tony Harrison: Them & uz; A Good Read; National Trust: 'v'; Peter Reading: Parallel texts: February 15th Week 13: Seamus Heaney: The Tollund Man, Punishment; Michael Longley; Wounds; Edwin Morgan; The Loch Ness Monster's Song; The First Men on Mercury, Stobhill; Nuala Ni Dhomnnaill: The Language Issue; As for the Quince;Tom Leonard:Poetry; Unrelated Incidents (3)Roger McGough; anything available on ELF

Literature

• Auden, W.H. Selected Poems (1979) London Faber & Faber
• Thomas, R.S. Collected Poems 1945 - 1990 (2000) London Phoenix
• Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems (1974) London Faber & Faber
• Reading, Peter Essential Reading (1986) London Secker & Warburg
• 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) (50%), a response paper( 500-800 words; to be submitted by the end of the TEACHING semester (20%) and class participation and attendance (30%). Students taking the course need only fulfil one of the written requirements.Teaching will take the form close reading, reading aloud and related discussion.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=411

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