Unit information: Keats in 2008/09

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Unit name Keats
Unit code ENGL30052
Credit points 30
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Professor. Pite
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of English
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

The module covers the range of Keats&�s writing, including the letters, paying particular attention to $�Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil&� and $�The Fall of Hyperion&�. As well as directing attention to his development and influences, it looks at Keats&�s reception history (in relation to editorial practice, biographical constructions and critical re-readings); the emblematic and exemplary quality of that reception history is used to raise questions about key-terms like romanticism, the poet, and the literary.