Literature: 'English Poetry from Shakespeare to Today
Course details
Course code
Q00019921Course date
Number of classes
8 sessionsTimetable
Branch
AylshamTutor
Joseph WilliamsFee range
How you'll learn
Venue
Friends' Meeting House (Aylsham)Pegg's Yard
Red Lion Street
Aylsham
NR11 6ER
Level of study
Entry Levels 1,2,3: If you have never studied this subject before and you’re not confident in your skills, Entry levels are a good starting point.
Level 1: Covers basic skills and knowledge needed for this subject
Level 2: Building on basic knowledge or experience. Similar to Grade 4/ C at GCSE or O level in England or Standards in Scotland.
Level 3: Learn about the topic in-depth and have a broad range of skills. Independent working Equivalent to an A level in England or Higher in Scotland.
Beginners: A perfect introduction if you have no experience and skills in this subject.
Improvers: The next step if you have basic skills or knowledge but want to progress them further.
Advanced: Build on the solid experience and skills you have in this subject, applying your skills and knowledge in a more complex way.
Course overview
Course description
As well as considering each of the poets in isolation from week to week, we will also use the eight week course to ask ourselves: how has poetry developed through the years? What changes, and what remains the same? English Poetry from Shakespeare to today. 1. Shakespeare’s sonnets 2. Seventeenth-century: John Donne and Andrew Marvell 3. The Romantics I: Wordsworth and Coleridge 4. The Romantics II: Keats and Shelley 5. Victorians: Matthew Arnold, Emily Dickinson and Alfred, Lord Tennyson 6. Modernism and the First World War 7. Postwar: Larkin, Heaney, and others 8. Poetry today (Jack Underwood, Emily Berry, Rachael Allen). No previous knowledge of poetry is necessary – everybody is most welcome!
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