Reading and Riffing on W.B.yeats

Synopsis

Literary critic Helen Vendler discusses the poetry of W.B.Yeats with Christopher Lydon. Describing him ‘in terms of formal invention, the first modernist’, she gives close readings of ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, and ‘Easter 1916’.

Language

English

Country

United States

Year of release

2007

Subjects

Literature

Keywords

Modernism; poetry; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)

Online availability

URI

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_Institute/Open_Source/Helen_Vendler.mp3

Price

free

Delivery

Streamed

Credits

Contributor

Christopher Lydon; Helen Vendler

Distributor

Name

Radio Open Source

Web

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