Poetry: The Versatile Imagination

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2011:

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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.

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.

An essay of 5000 words 100% (due at the end of semester). Students are required to attend a minimum of 75% of classes in order to qualify to have their written work assessed. All required written work must be submitted in order to pass the subject.

• Norton Anthology of Poetry (Ferguson, Salter &. Stallworthy, eds), (5th ed)

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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.