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ENGL 310: Modern Poetry

Lecture 06 - William Butler Yeats (cont.). Yeats's late poetry is discussed and interpreted. The poet's interest in human knowledge and its relationship to the body, particularly the aging body, is traced from "Leda and the Swan" to "Sailing to Byzantium," "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz," "Two Songs from a Play," and "Vacillation." Yeats's late interest in the experiences of joy, madness, and "gaiety" is examined in "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop." Yeats's de-mystifying attitude toward art in "The Circus Animals' Destruction" is contrasted with his celebration of art in "Lapis Lazuli." (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 06 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Yeats on the Subject of Magic and an Introduction to Yeats's Late Poems
[00:15:02] 2. W. B. Yeats Poem: "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz"
[00:25:15] 3. W. B. Yeats Poem: "Two Songs from a Play"
[00:27:29] 4. W. B. Yeats Poem: "Vacillation"
[00:34:47] 5. W. B. Yeats Poem: "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop"
[00:42:06] 6. W. B. Yeats Poem: "Lapis Lazuli"

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Lecture 6 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Instructor: Professor Langdon Hammer. Section Activity: W.B. Yeats [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Robert Frost
Lecture 03 - Robert Frost (cont.)
Lecture 04 - William Butler Yeats
Lecture 05 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Lecture 06 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Lecture 07 - World War I Poetry in England
Lecture 08 - Imagism
Lecture 09 - Ezra Pound
Lecture 10 - T.S. Eliot
Lecture 11 - T.S. Eliot (cont.)
Lecture 12 - T.S. Eliot (cont.)
Lecture 13 - Hart Crane
Lecture 14 - Hart Crane (cont.)
Lecture 15 - Langston Hughes
Lecture 16 - William Carlos Williams
Lecture 17 - Marianne Moore
Lecture 18 - Marianne Moore (cont.)
Lecture 19 - Wallace Stevens
Lecture 20 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Lecture 21 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Lecture 22 - W. H. Auden
Lecture 23 - W. H. Auden (cont.)
Lecture 24 - Elizabeth Bishop
Lecture 25 - Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)