Earth and air: three Romantic poets

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    Course

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    London

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    Different dates available

The most human of the elements, earth and air, will lead us into some of the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, and their meditations on the relations between the individual, nature and society.The course will take place at Keats House in Hampstead.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

Identify more clearly what it is in some of these poems that appeals to you;Distinguish some different poetic features of these poets’ practice;Account for the shaping of these poems by personal, cultural and historical forces.

No. All of the poems to be studied, and other reading materials, will be supplied.

No preparation is needed for this course, and spontaneous, unprepared response is welcomed! There will be opportunity for small group and larger group discussion prompted, led, and responded to by the tutor.

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Subjects

  • On-Air
  • Poems
  • Poetry

Course programme

We will read well-known poems, including extracts from The Prelude, Tintern Abbey, Coleridge’s ‘Conversation Poems’, Keats’s Odes and ‘Hyperion’. Our discussion will be informed by contemporary science and history, but primarily we will be reading these poems closely and in collaboration with each other to enjoy their evocations of footfall upon the ground or flight amid the air as poetry. Issues of solitude and society, liberty and constraint, humankind’s place in nature and the questing of ‘man’s unconquerable mind’ connect these poems in various ways; but, equally, to appreciate the uniqueness of each poem’s ground and atmosphere will be our goal.

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