| CODE | ENG2277 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Practical Criticism: Poetry | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit aims to introduce students to the practice of the critical analysis of poetry. This study-unit will offer an overview of poetry criticism and its diverse traditions. It will explore varied aspects of poetics and consider the claims made for the relation between poetry and aesthetics. Readings may include relevant essays or articles by J. C. Ransom, I. A. Richards, William Empson, W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, M. H. Abrams, and Helen Vendler. The discussions prompted by such readings will serve as a preamble for practical sessions focused on the critique of poetry. Works analysed in the practical sessions are chosen from a broad range of poets taken from different periods of English literature and, may include poems by John Donne, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, R. S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Kay Ryan and C. K. Williams. Issues discussed will include, among others, the question of poetic form; formal constraints and variations on generic forms; tone and voice; metre and free verse, ambiguity in poetic language. Reading List: There are no set texts, other than the aforementioned extracts, but the following may be useful for further reading: Eagleton, Terry, How to Read a Poem (Malden: Blackwell, 2007). Lennard, John, The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Vendler, Helen, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Norbert Bugeja |
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