ENGL 2058 - Reading and Writing Poetry
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Course Details
| Course Code | ENGL 2058 |
| Course | Reading and Writing Poetry |
| Coordinating Unit | School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences |
| Term | Semester 2 2012 (Not offered in 2013) |
| Mode | Internal |
| Level | Undergraduate |
| Location/s | North Terrace |
| Units | 3 |
| Contact | Up to 3 hours per week |
| Prerequisites | 12 units of Level I courses from any Faculty |
| Corequisites | Not applicable |
| Incompatible | ENGL 2029 & ENGL 3029 |
| Assumed Knowledge | 3 units of Level I English |
| Restrictions | Not applicable |
| Quota | Not applicable |
| Course Description | This course looks at traditional forms of poetry and how they work. It considers poems from many different periods (from the sixteenth century to the present), in a wide variety of traditional forms (ballad, lyric, sonnet, epic, narrative, ode, dramatic monologue, etc.), using a range of different types of versification (blank verse, common measure, couplets, and so on, but excluding free verse). Students taking the course can expect to improve their skills in the critical appreciation of poetry; and, on the principle that the best way to learn is by doing, they will be given plenty of opportunity for composing different kinds of verse of the types studied. The course is distinctly different from, but complementary to, CRWR 2005 "Making Contemporary Poetry". There is no reason why students interested in poetry should not take both courses. [?] |
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Course Enrolment Dates and Fees
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Course Staff
Professor Tom Burton
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Room 504
Napier Building
North Terrace
Telephone: +61 8 8313 5618
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