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This course will look at the ways in which poetry finds words to express moments of vision and self-forgetting. Ranging from the Elizabethans to the present day, it will begin by looking at poetic manifestos by Sidney and Shelley (among others), and explore the ways in which they require poetry to engage with what cannot easily be put into words, then go on to consider: poems about religious transcendence; poems about rapturous communication with nature; visionary poems; dream poems; poems about ghosts and haunting; and poems which explore the possibility of saying the unsayable. Donne and other Metaphysical poets, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Whitman, Hardy, Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, and Seamus Heaney will be among those poets discussed. Workshop time will be divided equally between critical discussion, and the presentation of original work by students.