FYSP 127 - William Butler Yeats in Context

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, Wri

A study of the poetry, autobiographical prose, and several of the plays of William Butler Yeats in the context of his late Victorian and Modernist contemporaries. The influence of writers such as Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot and Pound on Yeats’ poetic practice and theory will be assessed. In Yeats’ work we will focus on the poetry collections “Responsibilities,” “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “The Tower,” “The Winding Stair and other Poems,” and “Last Poems,” and plays such as Cathleen ni Houlihan, The Words Upon the Window-Pane, The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory. Enrollment Limit: 14.
Instructor: J. Olmsted