Philosophy & Poetry

What philosophy ‘says’ poetry ‘shows’ - It is through the medium of poetry that philosophy is transformed into art. From Wordsworth to Wallace Stevens, from Blake to Jorges Luis Borges, come and explore the greatest of all literary adventures. 1. Introduction – Shelley’s Defence of Poetry and Wallace Steven’s Blue Guitar

2. Blake’s Heaven and Hell and Nietzsche’s Beyond Good And Evil 3. Heaven and Hell continues 4. Wordsworth and Schelling 5. Kantian Themes in Coleridge and others 6. Infinity up on trial from the Urn to Byzantium – Keats and Yeats 7. Schopenhaurian Themes 8. Modernism and identity 9. Philosophical Themes in the Four Quartet 10. Wallace Steven’s transformations of the real Tutor: Barrie Selwyn BA(Hons) MA PGCE

Method: Interactive Lecture, facilitated close reading of texts and class discussion.