Tutor information
Giles Goodland
Giles Goodland has published several books of poetry and has taught for the OUDCE for several years.
Courses
This course guides you through inherited literary concepts of 'place' - pastoral, landscape, etc. - before addressing contemporary poetry of an age of rapid travel, forced migration, environmental loss, virtual presence, and the centrality of language.
Romanticism was the first great self-declared movement in literature. Its influence was wide, from painting to architecture to garden design to fashion and music, but its major legacy was in poetry. This course will follow the poets and assess their work.
Shakespeare and his contemporaries: are they inseparable? We will look at what else was happening in the 'Jacobethan' period: drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and the milieu, not only to contextualize the Bard, but understand and explore the age.
This course is for those who want to extend their poetry: literally. The 'short poem' is the dominant form today, yet is limited and limiting. If you are working on a long poem, or want to write one, this course is for you. It does not have to be an epic.