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| English Romantic poet Percy Bysse Shelley famously observed that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind." Unacknowledged they may be. But poetry remains unique among the linquistic arts as the one which most fully synthesizes orality with the written text, the intellectual rigor of philosophy with the immediacy of direct perception, and the world of the individual imagination with the mythologies, folk rituals and customs held as the common cultural heritage of entire groups of people .In this course we will try to bring the written word off the page and into new life through discussion, performance and the use of supplementary materials such as music, film and visual art. An important feature of the course will provide an examination of poetry in relationship to musics of the world, particularly Scottish ballads, British and American folk-rock, reggae, blues, jazz and hip-hop. Projected films include: Dali and Bunuel's Andalusian Dogs, Cocteau's Orpheus, and Marcel Ca
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