FIVE FAVOURITES: POETRY IN PERSON

Associate Professor Peter Anderson, Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town

Monday 22–Friday 26 January 5.00 pm COURSE FEES R550; Staff and students R275

This course will offer five poems for close reading and analysis, ranging from Tudor love lyrics to contemporary poetry of social witness. We will delve into context and poet, but our emphasis will be on a fuller and deeper enjoyment of the poems themselves. The poems, if not accessible on www.poetryfoundation.com or on the internet, will be supplied in class.

Lecture titles

  1. Thomas Wyatt: ‘They Flee from Me’
  2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘Frost at Midnight’
  3. WH Auden: ‘Lullaby’
  4. Geoffrey Hill: ‘Genesis’
  5. Carolyn Forché: ‘The Colonel’

Recommended reading

www.poetryfoundation.com

TO BOOK:

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