W. B. Yeats: Lectures & Resources



Introductory Lectures
The Literary Revival The Poems of WBY (I) The Poems of WBY (II)

Modern Irish Writers: General Index

Modern Irish Literature: An Overview
[Introductory Lecture to “Major Irish Authors”]

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Longer Essays
"Where does the Spirit Live?" Yeats & Joyce: Varieties of Catholicsm?
*The above essays are versions and extracts from guest lectures which I have given at the annual W. B. Yeats International Summer School (Sligo) in 2004 and an unpublished longer essay 2007. They are not part of the syllabus of this module and are placed here for your interest only.

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A Short Bibliography of Secondary Reading

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Yeats’s Poems: An Anthology
Early Poems Middle Poems Later Poems

 
Early Poems
“The Stolen Child”
“Down by the Sally Gardens”
“The Lake Isle of Inisfree”
“When You Are Old”
“Song of Wandering Aengus”
“Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland”
“The Secret Rose”
“No Second Troy”
“Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation”
“September 1913”
“The Magi”
Middle Poems
The Wild Swans at Coole”
“An Irish Airman Forsees His Death”
“Easter 1916”
“The Second Coming”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
“Meditations in Time of Civil War”
“Leda and the Swan”
“Among School Children”

Later Poems
“Coole Park, 1929”
[Later Poems - cont.]
“Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931”
“Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop”
“Meru [Philosophical Songs, XII]”
“The Municipal Gallery Revisited”
“Lapis Lazuli (For Harry Clifton)”
“The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
“Under Ben Bulben”
The Tower (1925)

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Prose Quotations (1) Prose Quotations (2) Prose Quotations (3)

The Land of Heart’s Desire

Some Older Critical Remarks Some Newer Critical Remarks

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