Lecturer in charge: Dr Harold McDermott [Room 3 – Old Arts Block]

An introduction to methods and techniques of critical appreciation of poetry. The lectures will be complemented by assignments in critical analysis of a variety of poems from the prescribed text and elsewhere.

Instruction: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: Best 4 coursework assignments 40%

Final 3-hour examination (2 answers) 60%

Prescribed Texts:

Perrine , Laurence & Thomas Arp. Sound and Sense (8 th edition, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich pb)

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms (8 th Edition, Thomson-Wadsworth pb)