Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21L.704 (Spring 2008) 
• Course Title:
• Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Literature 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. John Hildebidle 
• Course Introduction:
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  21L.704 Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2008

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  
  
  21L.704 Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2008

  
  
  

  

  William Butler Yeats, 1923.  (Image courtesy of Wikipedia.)

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  William Butler Yeats occupies a dominant position in the lives and work of the Irish poets who followed him. We will explore some of that poetry, and consider how later poets, especially female poets, tried to come to grips with, or escape from, that dominance. As a seminar, the subject will place special emphasis on student involvement and control. I will ask you to submit one ten-twelve page essay, two shorter (five page) essays, and to accept the role of "leadoff person," perhaps more than once, That role will demand that you choose from among the assigned readings for that session the poem we should focus upon, and to offer either a provocative articulation of what the poem is about, or a provocative question which the poem confronts, and which we should grapple with, as well.