ENGL 377 - Poetics

Institution:

University of Richmond

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Description:

How creative tools available to poets shape and influence presentation of theme. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course is about the meaning of poetic form. We are concerned with the basic mechanics of traditional formal verse in the English language as it has developed in England and North America since the 14th century and with the values conferred on its forms by various reading communities (by readers and writers who saw themselves as working within and upholding a central tradition and by those who saw themselves as deliberately working against or outside such a tradition). The first part of the course reviews basic methods for perceiving, describing, and interpreting the formal mechanics of verse in English (with particular attention to the rise of modern accentual-syllabic verse). The second part covers various conceptual and historical matters: the development of period styles, the ideological content and context of particular lyric genres and devices, the development of an "English Poetic Tradition" in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and a series of stances in opposition to that tradition among British and American poets of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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