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Poetological poetry, defined as poetry self-reflexively discussing either the art and craft of writing poetry itself, the role of poetry or the poet in society, or the relationship between the poet, the text and the reader, has been a central strand of poetic production for centuries - the study of poetological poetry through the epochs can thus provide crucial insights into how these issues have been conceptualized in different contexts and periods. The seminar will provide an overview of key poetological poems from the early 18th century to the present day. Writers to be discussed include Alexander Pope, Edward Young, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy B. Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, Charles Tomlinson, Tony Harrison as well as a number of contemporary writers. In order to contextualize these texts, we will also consider poetological essays and manifestos by these and further writers.
A reader containing an initial selection of texts will be available in the copyshop in Reckhammerweg from early September onwards Participants are expected to have read the first two texts for the first session. |
