Required:
An Introduction to the Irish Literary Revival (Part 1)
An Introduction to the Irish Literary Revival (Part 2)
Yeats’s Early Phase: Introduction [For lecture notes on this phase, click here]
Yeats’s Transitional Phase: Introduction [For lecture notes on this phase, click here]
Yeats’s Middle Phase: Introduction (Responsibilities), “Pardon Old Fathers,” and “To a Wealthy Man” [For lecture notes on this phase, click here]
Yeats’s Middle Phase: Introduction (“The Wild Swans at Coole”)
Yeats’s Late Phase: Introduction [For lecture notes on this phase, click here]
Select at least two additional poems from each phase of Yeats’s career (you can do additional poems if you’d like, but this is the minimum)
Early: “The Stolen Child”
Early: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Early: “To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time”
Early: “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
Early: “When You Are Old”
Early: “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
Transitional: “Adam’s Curse”
Transitional: “Never Give all the Heart”
Transitional: “No Second Troy”
Transitional: “Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation”
Middle: “Pardon Old Fathers”
Middle: “To a Wealthy Man”
Middle: “September 1913”
Middle: “A Coat”
Middle: “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory”
Middle: “The Living Beauty”
Middle: “The Fisherman”
Middle: “Easter, 1916”
Middle: “A Prayer for My Daughter”
Late: “The Second Coming”
Late: “Sailing to Byzantium”
Late: “Leda and the Swan”
Late: “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz”
Late: “Vacillation”
Late: “Under Ben Bulben”
Late: “Cuchulain Comforted”