Poetry of the City

City Lit

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    London

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    Different dates available

Since the Industrial Revolution, cities have become ever more complex, populous and significant. We shall consider the widely varied ways in which poets have responded to this phenomenon, evoking the experience of life in different cities as they have grown and changed.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Demonstrate an understanding of how impressions and sensations of city life can be evoked in poetry.
- Appreciate how poets reflect and interpret urban culture.
- Discuss how style and technique can contribute to the meaning and impact of poetry.
- Identify how a poet’s life and circumstances can influence their work.

No. You will be provided with photocopies of the poems to be studied. Bring a pen and paper.

Teacher explanation; group discussion.

TUTOR BIOGRAPHY:
Peter Brennan is a poet, and was for many years Head of English at The Latymer School, Edmonton. He founded Visionary Company courses in 2005, and is Editor-in-Chief of Perdika Press.

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Subjects

  • Writing
  • Poetry

Course programme

We shall ‘visit’ cities in several countries over the past two centuries, including Byron’s London, Baudelaire and Apollinaire’s Paris, the New York of Lorca and Frank O’Hara, Anna Akhmatova’s St. Petersburg, Roy Fisher’s Birmingham. We will focus on their descriptions and interpretations of the urban landscape and its inhabitants, and how their poetry is formed by (and helps to form ideas and feelings about) the cities that they represent. Foreign poets will be studied in translation.

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Look up Literature courses in the prospectus under Humanities or on the website under History, Culture and Writing. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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