This elective course is designed to introduce students with the most significant literary feeds of British poetry (epics, poems, sonnets) and the key representatives from the earliest periods to the 20th century and how determinant has their impact been to the splendour of British literature and culture in the world.

The students: will elaborate the works of the most important representatives of British poetry on a comparative perspective, and will assess how and to what extent every male and female poet has helped the critic evaluate the literary flows and the specific stylistic characteristics of each representative