Poetry: The Versatile Imagination

Subject ENGL40006 (2010)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 4 (Undergraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:

Semester 1, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable

On Campus

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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 2
Total Time Commitment: 120
Prerequisites: Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in English.
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements: None

Coordinator

Prof Peter Steele

Contact

Peter Steele
peterds@unimelb.edu.au

Subject Overview:

This subject explores originality and diversity in poetry of several centuries and different countries, with some attention to context and reception. Students who complete this subject should be acquainted with a significant range of poems from the last several hundred years, have developed skills in reading them alertly, as to style, preoccupations, context and originality, and be aware of the interplay between traditions and individual talents.
Objectives: Students who complete this subject will:
  • be acquainted with a significant range of poems from the last several hundred years;
  • have developed skills in reading them alertly, as to style, preoccupations, context and originality; and
  • be aware of the interplay between traditions and individual talents.
Assessment:

An essay of 5000 words 100% (due at the end of semester).
Prescribed Texts:
  • Norton Anthology of Poetry (Ferguson, Salter & Stallworthy, eds), (5th ed)
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills: Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:

  • read attentively a variety of works;

  • write both critically and lucidly;

  • discuss coherently and patiently; and

  • both think and change their minds.
Related Majors/Minors/Specialisations: English
English
English

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