ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
This course aims at exploring major poets, their poetics and poetic movements of the English Literary Tradition. In doing so, this course will also approach poetic forms and language, the use of imagery and metaphor as well as major themes, topics and changes in poetic language as related to particular cultural and historical contexts.
1. Introduction to Poetry and Poetic Language: Rhyme, Rhythm, Stanzaic Forms, The Use of Metaphor, Imagery and Stylistic Devices
2. Renaissance Poetry: Thomas Wyatt; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Sir Philip Sidney; William Shakespeare
3. The Metaphysical Poets: John Donne, George Herbert, Walter Raleigh, Andrew Marvell
4. Seventeenth-Century Poetry: John Milton, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Anne Bradsheet
5. Romantic Poetry: William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Anna Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, Dorothea Hemans, LE Landon
6. A Poesía do Século XIX: Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti
7. A Poesía do Século XX e XXI: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian, Elizabeth Jennings
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Attridge, Derek (1982): The Rythms of English Poetry. Longman.
Barfield, Owen (1987): Poetic diction: a study in meaning. Wesleyan University Press.
Brooks, Cleanth and R.P. Warren (1976): Understanding Poetry. Halt, Rinehart and Winston.
De Man, Paul (1984): The Rhetoric of Romanticism. Columbia U.P.
Eagleton, Terry (2007): How to Read a Poem. Blackwell.
Enright, D.J. and Erns de Chickera (1962): English Critical Texts. O.U.P.
Ferguson, Margaret, Tim Kendall and Mary Jo Slater, eds. (2018). The Norton Anthology to Poetry. New York: Norton.
Finch, Annie (2011): A Poet's Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form. University of Michigan Press
Fussell, Paul (1965): Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Random House.
Gayley, Charles Mills; Young, Clement C (2005): English Poetry. Kessinger Publishing.
Hillis-Miller, J (1987): The Linguistic Moment. From Wordsworth to Stevens. Princeton U.P.
Hirsch, E. (2008): The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology. W. W. Norton & Co.
Hollander, John (1981): Rhyme's Reason. Yale University Press.
Jenkins, Lee M; Davis, Alex, ed. (2007): The Cambridge companion to modernist poetry. Cambridge University Press.
Kiparsky, Paul (1975): "Stress, Syntax, and Meter". Language 51 (3): 576–616.
Leach, Geoffrey N. ( 1969): A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. Longman
Lennard, John (2006). The Poetry Handbook. Oxford: OUP.
Longenbach, James (1997): Modern Poetry After Modernism. Oxford University Press.
Machin, Richard and Christorpher Norris (1987): Post-Structuralist Raeadings of Engish Poetry. CUP.
Martin, Graham and P.N. Furbank, Twentieth Century English Poetry (1975): Critical Essays and Documents. The Open University Press.
Perloff, Marjorie (2002): 21st-century modernism: the new poetics. Blackwell Publishers.
Pinsky, Robert (1998): The Sounds of Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Preminger, Alex; Brogan, Terry VF; Warnke, Frank J, ed. (3rd ed.): The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton.
Strand, M. (2001): The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Norton Anthology). W. W. Norton & Co.; New Ed edition.
Strachan, John R; Terry, Richard, G (2000). Poetry: an introduction. Edinburgh University Press.
Wilson, Edmund (1959): Axel’s Castle. Fontana.
Further Reading
Agambem, Giorgio (1999): The End of the Poem. Standford
Badiou, Alain (2000): Para unha nova teoría do suxeito. Santiago: Noitarenga.
Graham Martin, Language (1972): Truth and Poetry: Some Notes Toward a Philosophy of Literature. Edinburgh University Press.
Jacobson, R. (1977): Ensayos de Poética. Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Jakobson, R. (1981): Lingüística y Poética. Cátedra.
Rabaté Rabaté, Dominique (1996): Figures du sujet lyrique. Presses Universitaires de France.
Richards, I.A. (1976): Principles of Literary Criticism. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Riffaterre, Michel (1978): The Semiotics of Poetry. Methuen.
CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4,CB5,
CG3, CG5, CG6, CG7, CG8, CG9,
CE5, CE6, CE7, CE8, CE9, CE10
• Critical Analysis of Poetic Forms and organisation.
• Knowledge and skill in the use of techniques of textual analysis.
• Oral and written argumentative abilities.
• Critical attitude and linguistic sensibility.
• Critical analysis of cultural documents.
• Ability to understand the cultural and historical relevance of the great changes in poetic language.
• Ability to explain the relevance of changes in style.
• Ability to relate poetic technical innovations to social, cultural and political contexts.
The sessions of this subject combine LECTURES (2 hours per week), SEMINARS (1 hour per week), and TUTORIALS (3 hours per year per student).
Occasionally, the lecturer may invite speakers to give talks related to the contents of the subject.
-Final examination: 70% of the final grade. Please notice that a minimum grade in this exam (50%) will be necessary to add the assignment and attendance grade.
-Assignments and attendance: 30 % of the final grade. Those students who are absent when required to make their presentation will add '0' to their session grade.
Please notice that these assessment criteria will apply to both May and July.
IMPORTANT: Those students whose absences (either from lectures, seminars, or both) AMOUNT TO 3 will lose the attendance and seminar percentage (30%) of their final grade, and will therefore ADD '0' to their examination grade (70%). Absences must necessarily be notified WITHIN TEN DAYS; no absence notifications will be accepted after that date.
Those students from the previous academic year may be excused from attendance and participation in group tasks by taking advantage of the continuous evaluation grade obtained the previous year. This should be notified in advance and each particular case will be considered by the lecturer.
Students who have been officially exempted from attendance will be assessed on the basis of one final exam which will amount to 100% of the final grade.
The literary texts must be read in English and the exams and assignments must be also written also in English. Fluency and correct language use will be taken into account when marking these activities.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento
académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
Lectures: 32 hours (2hours per week)
Seminars: 16 hours (1 hour per week)
Tutorials: 3 hours per student and year
CLASS WORK:51 hours
INDIVIDUAL WORK: 99 hours
TOTAL: 150 hours (6 ECTS credits)
- Reading prior to seminars/lectures is required
- Fluency in English
As for the texts and authors indicated on the syllabus, the lecturer may decide to focus more on certain aspects than others, hence the program is a flexible one.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assigments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento
académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
Laura Maria Lojo Rodriguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811880
- laura.lojo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Martin Fernandez Fernandez
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- m.fernandez.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU
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| 05.19.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C10 |
| 05.19.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C10 |
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| 05.19.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C10 |
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| 05.19.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C11 |
| 05.19.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C11 |
| 05.19.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C11 |
| 06.24.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C06 |
| 06.24.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C06 |
| 06.24.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C06 |
| 06.24.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C06 |
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| 06.24.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C08 |
| 06.24.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C08 |
| 06.24.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C08 |