Reading Poetry

Course Description

This course is intended to give students the opportunity to practise critical reading of poetry. In order to do so we will analyse and discuss representative works of major English poets. Analysis and interpretation will focus on themes as well as formal and stylistic devices employed in the works selected. We will also discuss some poetological positions as articulated in theoretical works on poetry, i.e. in so-called poetics. The texts will be provided in the first session.

Requirements for a Leistungsschein: Regular attendance and participation in discussions, an oral presentation and a term paper. Attendance at first session is obligatory.

Please note that only those students can be admitted to this course who have successfully attended "Introduction to Literary Criticism" and can present the Schein for this introduction in the first session of our poetry course.