He is co-author of The Routledge History of Literature in English with Ron Carter, and also wrote The Language of Poetry, Literature with a Small 'l' and the first critical edition of Teleny by Oscar Wilde and others. John McRae is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies and Teaching Associate in the School of English at Nottingham University, and holds Visiting Professorships in China, Malaysia, Spain and the USA. In the final eight modules after that, we demonstrate the same approach with eight more poems – four of them very famous, and four of them less so. This is followed in the ninth module with a discussion of the eleven features of poetry that can provide useful starting points for analysis – lexis, syntax, graphology, semantics, etc. ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a major voice in the Romantic movement along with William Wordsworth. In modules four to eight, these concepts and approaches are applied to five unseen poems. compare the first and last lines, look at the verbs, etc.). the ‘movement’ the poem, ‘binaries’, etc.) as well as the more concrete approaches (e.g. The first three modules introduce key concepts (e.g. In this seventeen-part course, Professor John McRae (University of Nottingham) provides a step-by-step guide for approaching unseen poetry. In this module, we analyse three four-line sections of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
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