W18M The Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Reading, Discussion | This course is completed

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1/11/2021-3/15/2021

1:30 PM-3:30 PM EDT on Mon

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[NEW COURSE] We'll study the most famous poems of Ireland's greatest poet. Yeats' poetry develops from late-Romantic works grounded in rediscovered Irish mythology to works on the Irish Revolution to some of the greatest, very recognizable and relevant modernist works (e.g. "The Second Coming").

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  • Required Text: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats ISBN 9781853264542

Donna Richardson is professor emerita at St. Mary's College of Maryland where she taught literature for 33 years. Her specialties include poetry (especially Romantics), mythology in Greek literature, and Tolstoy.