Contemporary Poetry of the British Isles:
some poets and their contexts
This course aims to offer students a perspective on poetry by British and Irish authors from the 1950s to the present. The programme will focus on the work of three poets – Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney –, but other influential voices in the definition of major currents of contemporary poetry in English 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 course aims to offer students a perspective on poetry by British and Irish authors from the 1950s to the present. The programme will focus on the work of three poets – Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney –, but other influential voices in the definition of major currents of contemporary poetry in English 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.
- Teacher: Rui Manuel Gomes Carvalho Homem
Período: 1ºSemestre