Languages & Culture
Literature: 'English Poetry from Shakespeare to Today
Course details
Course code
Q00019921Course date
Start: 20/01/25
End: 17/03/25
Number of classes
8 sessionsBranch
AylshamTutor
Joseph WilliamsFee range
Free to £67.20
How you'll learn
Venue
Friends' Meeting House (Aylsham)Pegg's Yard
Red Lion Street
Aylsham
NR11 6ER
Level of study
Availability
You can enrol online for this course
Course overview
The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley famously said that ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.’ This course tracks the development of English poetry, from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the contemporary poetry of Jack Underwood, Emily Berry, and Rachael Allen.
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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