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