Encountering Antiquity (class notes)

Summary of intensive 15-day Encountering Antiquity class:
Day 1; Day 2; Day 3; Day 4; Day 5; Day 6; Day 7; Day 8; Day 9; Day 10. Day 11; Day 12; Day 13; Day 14; Day 15;

Other texts are the brilliant Anne Carson's:

Day 1 (of 15)

Week 1 - Imagining the Origin

Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge: "The Rhythms of Poetry: A First Approach" (pp. 1-20).

Day 2 (of 15)

Day 3 (of 15)

Day 4 (of 15)

Week 2 - Teaching and Delighting: The Classical Discipline in the Renaissance.

Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge: "Dancing Language" and "Stress Verse and Strong Stress Verse" (pp. 21-42).

Day 5 (of 15)

Day 6 (of 15)

Day 7 (of 15)

Week 3 - Revolutionary Romantics.

Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge: "Dancing Language" and "Stress Verse and Strong Stress Verse" (pp. 42-96).

Day 8 (of 15)

Day 9 (of 15)

Day 10 (of 15)

Week 4 - Modernism and the Poetics of Ruin.

Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge: "Syllable Stress Verse: Versatility and Variation" (pp. 96-146).

Day 11 (of 15)

Day 12 (of 15)

Day 13 (of 15)

Week 5 - Antiquity and Post-Modernity.

Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge: "Major Types of Syllable-Stress Verse" (pp. 147-166).

Day 14 (of 15)

Day 15 (of 15)


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