22 Feb:
Introduction

1 Mar:
The Stolen Child
The Rose of the World
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Sorrow of Love
Who Goes with Fergus?
The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland
To Ireland in the Coming Times
The Song of Wandering Aengus
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
The Fiddler of Dooney
The Secret Rose
(All from Poems 1895, and The Wind Among the Reeds (1899))

8 Mar:
The Wanderings of Oisin [long poem]

15 Mar:
The Folly of Being Comforted
Adam’s Curse
No Second Troy
The Fascination of What’s Difficult
All Things Can Tempt Me
September 1913
On Those Who Hated ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, 1907
The Cold Heaven
A Coat
Closing Rhyme (beginning ‘While I, from that reed-throated whisperer’)
(All from In the Seven Woods (1904), The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910), Responsibilities (1914))

22 Mar:
The Wild Swans at Coole [collection]

29 Mar:
Michael Robartes and the Dancer [collection]

5 Apr:
Chapter 1, W. B. Yeats and World Literature (2016) by Barry Shiels

12 Apr:
***Class moved to Thurs 11 April, 12.30***
Lecture by Dr Barry Shiels (Durham University)

W.B. Yeats and the Scale of Poetry
This lecture considers the problem of scale in Yeats’s poetry, specifically the way that certain of his poems produce their effects by layering different temporal and spatial dimensions: the personal, the national, the European, the global, and even the planetary. Can we read one scale against another? And might a focus on the problem of scale – themes of size, distance and perspective – help us understand the political and aesthetic contradictions of Yeats’s verse? I will pay close attention to three poems: ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’, ‘Lapis Lazuli’ and ‘High Talk’.

19 Apr: National Holiday

26 Apr:
The Tower [collection]

3 May:
The Tower (cont’d)

10 May:
Class cancelled. See details of make-up class on 28 May.

17 May:
The Tower (cont’d)

24 May:
The Winding Stair and Other Poems

28 May
Last Poems. Make-up class on Tue 28 May, 9.30am at Portheimka Cafe. Please let me know in advance if you can't make this.