W. B. Yeats: Lectures & Resources

Resources

Introductory Lectures

Modern Irish Writers: General Index

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

Longer Essays
*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 2007. They are not part of the syllabus of this module and are placed here for your interest only.


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
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

   

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


Some Older Critical Remarks Some Newer Critical Remarks

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