The module will introduce you to writing from one of the key `moments' in the development of English literary culture. We will study Romantic poetry and its relationship to the social, political and cultural revolutions of the late eighteenth/ early nineteenth centuries, through works by authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Shelley. Throughout the module, you will explore the relationship between literary text and the wider cultural and social contexts of the period.

a) Group-Presentation, groups up to three, 10 mins. length;
(learning outcomes 1 to 5) 20%

leading into

b) Final Work: Coursework Essay, 2000 words;
(learning outcomes 1 to 4) 80%

Key Information Set Data:
20% practical exams
80% coursework

Weekly 2hr workshop sessions divided flexibly between staff-led introduction of texts, contexts and critical concepts, group development of reading/analytical skills, and the planning and development of group presentations

Key Information Set Data:
16% scheduled learning and teaching activities
84% guided independent learning

Networked PC
DVD/Video Projection
Library
Internet
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Fiona Stafford, Reading Romantic Poetry, Oxford: Blackwell, 2012
John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination [1930], London: Picador, 1978
Uttara Natarajan (ed.) The Romantic Poets. A Guide to Criticism, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007

1. UNDERSTAND THE SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS IN SHAPING THE MEANING OF LITERARY TEXTS FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
Knowledge & Understanding

2. READ ANALYTICALLY A RANGE OF POETIC TEXTS FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
Analysis
Learning

3. COMMUNICATE A COHERENT ARGUMENT IN ORAL AND WRITTEN FORM
Communication

4. PARTICIPATE FLEXIBLY AND CREATIVELY IN GROUP PROJECTS
Application

5. REFLECT CRITICALLY ON THE GROUP PROJECT PROCESS
Reflection