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
- http://radioopensource.org External site opens in new window
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