Contemporary Poetry in English:
some poets and their contexts *
(* This programme will be integrally taught in English.
This course will confront students with a few salient exemplars in Anglophone poetry from the 1950s to the present. The programme will focus on the work of four poets – Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney –, but other influential voices in the definition of major currents in contemporary poetry 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 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.
some poets and their contexts *
(* This programme will be integrally taught in English.
This course will confront students with a few salient exemplars in Anglophone poetry from the 1950s to the present. The programme will focus on the work of four poets – Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney –, but other influential voices in the definition of major currents in contemporary poetry 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 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.
- Professor: Rui Manuel Gomes Carvalho Homem
Período: 1ºSemestre
Unidade Orgânica: FLUP
Ano Letivo: 2023/2024
Código: LA021