Poetry Courses in London
On our lively poetry courses, enjoy explores this captivating genre, revisit classic texts and discover new writers plus share your views in classroom discussions.
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Alexander Pope: 'The proper study of mankind'
Course Date: Sat 16 Feb 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover how Pope dominated the early 18C with a series of ambitious and astonishingly varied masterpieces, ranging from savage satire, via romantic eloquence, to his greatest philosophical and spiritual undertaking – An Essay on Man.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
John Keats: 'The vale of soul making'
Course Date: Sat 2 Mar 2019
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteKeats pursued – vigorously and brilliantly – questions related to ultimate truths. We shall consider a representative selection of his poetry and letters, reflecting on how their creative insights can help illuminate our own experience and aspirations.Full fee: £39.00Senior fee: £31.00Concession: £20.00 -
Understanding poetry
Course Date: Sat 30 Mar 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFrom Shakespeare and Milton to Ezra Pound and Frank O'Hara, what makes different types of poetry tick, and how can we gain the confidence to read them perceptively and with real enjoyment?Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £22.00 -
Five modern poets
Course Date: Mon 29 Apr 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore the work of five giants of modern poetry – from Hardys’ moving reflections on love and loss, through Eliot’s revolutionary modernism, the poems of Larkin and Heaney to Carol Ann Duffy’s wry reflections on modern life.Full fee: £99.00Senior fee: £79.00Concession: £44.00 -
Wordsworth: the Prelude -'The growth of a poet's mind'
Course Date: Wed 1 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThe Prelude is Wordsworth’s ultimate testimony, offering a richly varied poetic autobiography. We shall discuss extracts from each of the poem’s 13 books to gain a sense of the complexity and coherence of Wordsworth’s achievement.Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
The poetry of Keats: a literary workshop
Course Date: Sun 5 May 2019
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteThis course, led by Nick Field, Build literature tutor and former Keats House Poet in Residence, will give you the chance to read, explore and discuss some of Keats' most significant poetry in the location in which many of them were written. Poems include "The Odes" and "The Eve of St.Agnes".Full fee: £39.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £39.00 -
Bob Dylan: 'busy being born'
Course Date: Sat 25 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFor over 50 years, Bob Dylan has shown mercurial delight in striking out in unpredictable directions. We shall track the remarkable unfolding of his career, from classic Sixties compositions to his most recent album, Tempest (2012).Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Poetry and resistance: Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam and the decades of Soviet rule
Course Date: Thu 11 Jul 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThe three greatest poets of the revolutionary and Stalinist periods, and the ways their personalities and the calamitous events that beset their society found expression in works of unparalleled passion, intellectual sophistication and monumental restraint.Full fee: £59.00Senior fee: £59.00Concession: £26.00
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