FF:AJ14072 Aspects of British Poetry

AJ14072 Aspects of British Poetry: 1900-1950

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).

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

Thu 12:30–14:05 C11

Prerequisites (in Czech)

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: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20

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Course objectives

The course will look at work by a number of major poets working in the British context in the first half of the twentieth century. The focus will be on the process of analysing individual poems, both intrinsically, in terms of the relation of the way the poem works in terms of its use of language and related content, but also extrinsically in terms of it relation to the broader context of a particular poet's work. During the course participants should develop their ability to analyse a poem or poems in these respects and to extend this ability in terms of producing comparable forms of analysis in an end of semester essay.

Syllabus

Week 1: Feb. 25th:Introductory Week 2: March 3rd: Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones;At Castle Boterel; The Darkling Thrush Week 3: March 10th:W.B.Yeats (1): When You are Old; Easter 1916; Leda and The Swan Week 4:March 17th: Ezra Pound (1): The Garden;In a Station of the Metro;Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Week 5: March 24th:T.S.Eliot (1): The Love Song of Arthur J.Prufrock; Portrait of A Lady; Preludes; Gerontion Week 6: March 31st:READING WEEK: NO LESSON Week 7: April 7th:T.S.Eliot:(2): The Waste Land Week 8: April 14th:T.S.Eliot(3): Four Quartets Week 9: April 21st:D.H.Lawrence(1): Self- Pity; Figs; Snake; Lui et Elle; The English Are So Nice; Bavarian Gentians Wek 10: April 28th: Hugh MacDiarmid:The Watergaw;from The Kind of Poetry I Want;Poetry and Science;Scotland; Scotland Small? Bagpipe Music;The Caledonian Antiszyzygy;Crystals Like Blood Week 11:May 5th:David Jones: The Anathemata Weel 12:May 12th:Dylan Thomas: A Refusal to Mourn The Death of A Child by Burning in London; Fern Hill Week 13:May 19th:Philip Larkin:Going; Wants; Days; I Remember, I Remember

Literature

Pound, Ezra, Personae: Collected Shorter Poems London 2001
Lawrence, D.H., The Complete Poems London Penguin 1977
Hardy, Thomas Poems Oxford Oxford University Press 1984
Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems 1909-1962 London Faber and Faber 1974
Jones, David, The Anathemata London Faber and Faber 1972
Larkin, Philip, Collected Poems London Faber and Faber 1988
Yeats, W.B. Selected Poems London Penguin 2000

Teaching methods

The course will proceed by way of analysis through close reading in terms of initial pair and/or small-group discussions that will subsequently be extended into a teacher led, general class discussion. This process will then be substantially evidenced in writing through submission of an end of semester essay

Assessment methods

Assessment will be through oral participation (40%) and an essay of 5-7 pages (double-spaced) (60%).

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