Example resources

Handouts

Handout 1: Poetic Schools and Movements (includes some brief comments on studying on this module, links to useful poetry sites, and a list of introductory secondary texts)

Handout 2: Schools and Movements in Art (representative artworks in the same schools and movements as the poetry) and separate list of artworks

Handout 3: French Versification and English Scansion (to be read over Term 1 Reading Week, and the exercises completed as far as possible)

Approaches to Poetry

Poem analysis grid (Word Document) (which can be adapted to individuals' preferred usage)

Material on Translation

Michael C. Walker, 'Translating Poetry: The Works of Arthur Rimbaud From French to English' (Translation, 2:4,October 1998)
Erna Bennett, 'Translating Poetry' (Translatum, 2002)
Susan Bassnett, 'Translation as Re-Membering' (Cultural Memory: Essays on European Literature and History, ed. Edric Caldicott and Anne Fuchs. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 293-309)

Material on Poetic Technique

David Evans, 'Paul Valéry and the Search for Poetic Rhythm', Paragraph, 33 (2010), 158-75

Material on Critical Appreciation

E. K. Sparks, 'Reading a Poem' (Clemson University)
John Lye, 'Critical Reading: A Guide' (Department of English, Brock University)