Syllabus:

The course of lectures will be arranged as follows:

 1) Introduction

Consultation week

 6) Ted Hughes
 2) Philip Larkin  7) Geoffrey Hill
 3) Donald Davie  8) Seamus Heaney
 4) Charles Tomlinson  9) Paul Muldoon and Peter Reading
 5) Thom Gunn  10) Some women poets

Seminars will follow up each lecture. Please note that this course is examined by assessed written work. This means that you will produce two pieces of written work, the first 2-3000 words long and the second 3-5000 words long, during the term, the first of which will be marked and returned to you in the ordinary way; the mark for the second of them will go forward as the mark for this course as a whole. There will be no formal written exam. A pass in this course is a necessary condition for taking EN3307 Contemporary Poetry in Britain.