English Literature - 20th Century Poetry

Code:

LLC090

Acronym:

LIP_20

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	39	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LRI	0	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

English

Objectives

Contemporary Poetry of the British Isles:
some poets and their contexts

This course aims to offer students a perspective on the poetry of the British Isles over the past fifty years. The programme will focus on the work of three poets – Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney –, but other influential voices in the definition of major currents of twentieth-century poetry in English will also be duly acknowledged. Students will be prompted to consider the programme’s primary texts in some of their defining formal and thematic features, as much as in their relation to the the traditions they integrate and inflect. Their study will be framed both by a theoretical consideration of the lyric and a review of the historical contexts for the textual output with which the programme is centrally concerned.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semester students will have acquired a degree of familiarity with the work of three major poets who have decisively influenced the practice and understanding of poetic production in English in our age.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Programme:

1. Introduction
1.1. The lyric: some forms and traditions
1.2. Contemporary Poetry of the British Isles: a brief overview

2. British and Irish Poetry since the 1950s: some enabling voices
2.1. Philip Larkin: the poet and his circumstance; the “Movement” and beyond;
2.2. Ted Hughes: from mythmaking to “green” poetry – and the autobiographical register
2.3. Seamus Heaney: ground, polis and vision; contexts for an Irish poet;

3. Legacies and continuities

Mandatory literature

HEANEY, Seamus; Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber, 1998. ISBN: 978-0571194933
HUGHES, Ted; Collected Poems, Faber, 2005. ISBN: 978-0571227907
LARKIN, Philip; Collected Poems, Faber, 2003. ISBN: 978-0571216543

Complementary Bibliography

CORCORAN, Neil; English Poetry Since 1940, Longman, 1993
CORCORAN, Neil; Seamus Heaney, Faber, 1986
CORCORAN, Neil; Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext, Univ of Wales Press, 1999
DAY, Gary (ed.). ; British Poetry 1900-1950: aspects of tradition, St Martin's Press, 1995
DRAPER, R.P; An Introduction to Twentieth Century Poetry in English, Macmillan, 1999
EVERETT, Barbara; Poets in their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin., O.U.P, 1992
HAMILTON, Ian; The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, O.U.P, 1994
HEANEY, Seamus; The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings, Faber, 1988
HEANEY, Seamus; Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978, Faber, 1980
MORRISON, Blake; The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s, Methuen, 1986
NICHOLLS, Peter; Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Macmillan, 1995
O’DONOGHUE, Bernard; Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994
OUSBY, Ian (ed.); The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. 2nd edn. , C.U.P., 1993
PERKINS, David; A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After, Harvard U.P., 1987
ROSSEN, Janice; Philip Larkin: his life’s work, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989
SAGAR, Keith (ed); The Achievement of Ted Hughes, Manchester U.P, 1983
SAGAR, Keith; Ted Hughes, Longman, 1972
SINFIELD, Alan. ; Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain, Blackwell, 1989
SINFIELD, Alan (ed); Society and Literature 1945-1970, Methuen, 1983
THWAITE, Anthony; Twentieth-Century English Poetry: an Introduction, Heinemann, 1979
WARD, John Powell; The English Line: from Wordsworth to Larkin, Macmillan, 1991
WHALEN, Terry; Philip Larkin and English Poetry, Macmillan, 1990
WELCH, Robert (ed.); The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, O.U.P., 1996

Mandatory literature

HEANEY, Seamus; Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber, 1998. ISBN: 978-0571194933
HUGHES, Ted; Collected Poems, Faber, 2005. ISBN: 978-0571227907
LARKIN, Philip; Collected Poems, Faber, 2003. ISBN: 978-0571216543

Complementary Bibliography

CORCORAN, Neil; English Poetry Since 1940, Longman, 1993
CORCORAN, Neil; Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext, Univ of Wales Press, 1999
CORCORAN, Neil; Seamus Heaney, Faber, 1986
DAY, Gary (ed.). ; British Poetry 1900-1950: aspects of tradition, St Martin's Press, 1995
DRAPER, R.P; An Introduction to Twentieth Century Poetry in English, Macmillan, 1999
EVERETT, Barbara; Poets in their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin., O.U.P, 1992
HAMILTON, Ian; The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, O.U.P, 1994
HEANEY, Seamus; Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978, Faber, 1980
HEANEY, Seamus; The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings, Faber, 1988
MORRISON, Blake; The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s, Methuen, 1986
NICHOLLS, Peter; Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Macmillan, 1995
O’DONOGHUE, Bernard; Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994
OUSBY, Ian (ed.); The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. 2nd edn. , C.U.P., 1993
PERKINS, David; A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After, Harvard U.P., 1987
ROSSEN, Janice; Philip Larkin: his life’s work, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989
SAGAR, Keith; Ted Hughes, Longman, 1972
SAGAR, Keith (ed); The Achievement of Ted Hughes, Manchester U.P, 1983
SINFIELD, Alan. ; Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain, Blackwell, 1989
SINFIELD, Alan (ed); Society and Literature 1945-1970, Methuen, 1983
THWAITE, Anthony; Twentieth-Century English Poetry: an Introduction, Heinemann, 1979
WARD, John Powell; The English Line: from Wordsworth to Larkin, Macmillan, 1991
WELCH, Robert (ed.); The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, O.U.P., 1996
WHALEN, Terry; Philip Larkin and English Poetry, Macmillan, 1990

Teaching methods and learning activities

In accordance with decisions made with regard to all initial degrees in this Faculty, the course will be run on the basis of lectures, seminars, and tutorials. Students will be expected to adopt a productive and committed attitude towards their study, regularly submitting short essays and giving brief presentations in class. Other specificities of the course will be directly described to students at the beginning of the semester.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	15,00
Trabalho escrito	35,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	75,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	31,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students will have to attend a minimum 75% of all lessons, except in those cases where special legal provisions apply.

Calculation formula of final grade

The model of assessment chosen for this course relies on three different components:

a) a 2-hour written examination on topics connected with the work of the poets included in the programme; this test will be taken at the end of the semester;

b) a paper (ranging in length from a minimum of 2500 to a maximum of 4000 words, on A4 pages, Times New Roman 12, 1.5-spaced) on a well-defined topic. The topic should be chosen under the guidance and with the agreement of the course lecturer; deadline for choice of topics: 28 October 2014. The essay should be sharply focused, addressing its chosen theme without lengthy introductions on contexts, etc. This should be delivered preferably before Christmas; or, at the latest, on 5 January 2015;

c) an oral presentation and discussion of a poem - to be selected with the agreement of the course lecturer; deadline for choice of topics: 28 October 2014. Such presentations should be timed for a maximum of 10 minutes and will be scheduled for the 'aulas práticas'; they should begin in early November and continue through December. Marks given for these will integrate the student’s overall participation in class in the course of the semester.

Formula for assessment:

(a x 3) + (b x 2) + c
6

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

not applicable

Classification improvement

The course will fully abide the Faculty's current regulations for assessment.

Observations

All classes and other activities will be conducted in English.