LITS3001 MODERN POETRY

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WEEK 4: YEATS' EARLY POETRY (1890-1914)

Required Readings:

Seminar 1:

  • Essays and Introductions: "The Symbolism of Poetry" [1900] (also also pp. 28-35 in David Lodge, ed. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism)

Seminar 2:

  • Crossways [1889]: "The Stolen Child"
  • The Rose [1893]: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" / "When You Are Old" / "The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland"
  • In the Seven Woods [1903]: "Adam’s Curse"
  • The Green Helmet and Other Poems [1910]: "No Second Troy" * / "The Mask" *
  • Responsibilities [1914]: "September 1913" * / "To a Shade" * / "Beggar to Beggar Cried" * / "The Magi" * / "A Coat" *

(* indicates poems not in your anthology - please photocopy from any collection of Yeats' poetry and bring to class)

Recommended Readings:

  • David Perkins A History of Modern Poetry (Vol. 1): "William Butler Yeats"

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