Blank Verse
Instructor: James Bartlett (Pantygynt)Includes a free two month upgraded membership! Details
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Duration: Five Weeks
Class Size: 7 Students
Seats Left: 7
Classes are live and we talk to each other via a program claaed Teamspeak3 that is free to download. How to go about this will be described in detail once yyou sign up. We communicate with each other by email as this is more flexible than the HTML used by FanStory. Assignments are issued in most classes and individual tuition can be given where necessary.
If you are not fully proficient with the metre known as iambic pentameter instruction will be given. Students proceed at their own pace so all levelds of ability can feel confident of gaining something from this class.
Classes will be pitched to cover all abilities but will be built around the following framework.
Week 1 -- June 12 & 15 In troduction to blank verse.
Week 2 -- June 22 Blank verse in conversation as used in drama.
Week 3 -- June 26 & 29 Blank verse in non dramatic poetry
Week 4 -- July 3 & 6 The Blank Verse Sonnet
Week 5 -- July 10 & 13 As required.
Instructor: James Bartlett
About The Instructor:
Jim Bartlett is an ex-Royal Marine Officer, and retired teacher, with a good honours degree in Education, and English and Drama, from London University. He has been a member of a local poetry group in South Wales where he currently lives alone in a redundant farm house.
Jim started writing while serving with 45 Commando, Royal Marines in Aden in the mid 1960s. At that time he was writing mainly song lyrics but later moved on to poetry after studying it on his degree course, which he undertook as a mature student between 1972 and 1976.
He has been published in poetry magazines and newspapers from time to time. In 2005 he produced a CD of self-penned songs under the title of "Tomorrow Never Comes", and published a poetry collection of thirty-six poems in 2012 entitled, "Triple Dozen" prior to joining FanStory in March 2015. His songs and poems have won several competitions.
Jim has also lectured on English Folk Lore and Song for the WEA in SE London in the late 1970s. He was urged to enrol as an instructor on FanStory by many who found his reviews of their poetry particularly helpful.