| Unit name | Keats |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGL30102 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| 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 |
This unit 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.
Aims:
The unit aims to discuss work from across the range of Keats's output, to consider his development, his and his works cultural moment and their meaning(s) within literary history.
On completion of the module students will be expected to be able to:
1 x 2 hour seminar per week in one teaching block, plus 1-to-1 discussion in Consultation Hours where desired.
1 Short Essay (2000 words max) and 1 Long Essay (4000 words max), both summative.
Key reading material includes an annotated complete edition of Keats’s poems (either ed. John Barnard, Penguin, 1977, or ed. Miriam Allott, Longman Annotated English Poets, 1970), an edition of Keats’s letters (ed. Robert Gittings, OUP or Hyder Rollins, Harvard UP) plus an anthology of Romantic period poetry.
Important secondary texts include:
Nicholas Roe, editor, Keats and History (CUP, 1995)
Jack Stillinger, The Hoodwinking of Madeleine (Illinois UP, 1972 ) Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats (Harvard: The Belknap Press, 1984)
Duncan Wu, ed. Romanticism: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1995)
