New Course: English Poetry in the 20th and 21st centuries

A new course on developments in the poetry of the British Isles is being prepared.

It will begin with T.S. Eliot and cover poets such as Basil Bunting, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and J.H. Prynne, and Derek Walcott.

Female poets will include Sylvia Plath, U.A. Fanthorpe, and Liz Lockhead.

The course will begin on 10th May 2012

For further details please contact me via the email address given here or see details in Southampton Central Library, where the course will be held.

Course: Wordsworth and Coleridge: The First Romantics

When the current course on Shakespeare and Marlowe ends, a new course on Wordsworth and Coleridge will begin in 2nd week of February. It will cover their major poems, and note the forms of literary theory that informed their creativity, as well as outlining their biographies.

Contact details will be available in Southampton Central Library as well as on this web page.

New Article Online

My latest article 'Bevis and Tolkien; romancing the myth', has been published online only and may be viewed at http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=242515&FID=77&PR=3

It reveals close links between the famous fourteenth-century romance Bevis of Hampton and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Courses: The thursday course on Milton has restarted. In December we will begin the course on Shakespeare and Marlowe - comparing their plays The Tempest and Dr. Faustus.

Courses run on the English in the Afternoon programme

Anglo-Saxon Literature

English Drama Before Shakespeare

English Poetry and History
The Faerie Queene,

The Development of the English Language 600 -1600 AD

Paradise Lost

Introducing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Medieval Romances (Fourteenth-century Middle English verse romances)
Shakespeare and Marlowe: Introducing late Elizabethan Drama

Women in Medieval English Literature

Forthcoming in 2012:
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Late 20th and 21st century Poetry

English Poetry and History

The Development of the English Language 600-1600 AD

Shakespeare and Marlowe: Late Elizabethan Drama