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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...
A programme about W.B Yeats from the ‘Famous Authors’ series of documentary biographies. Using film, archive documents, portraits, music and commentary, the programme presents not only a factual outline...
From the first days of recording the voices of poets reading their own work have been thought worthy of permanent record. This CD looks back at the earliest English-language poets whose voices have survived,...
Extracts from a National Lecture on Modern Poetry given by Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, originally broadcast on 11/10/1936, in which he talks about the work of Edith Sitwell, the effect of...
This double audio CD contains works by poets listed in the National Curriculum. They include William Blake, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Herbert, Robert Herrick,...
Terence Brown, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin, lectures on the young W B Yeats, focusing on two of the writer’s preoccupations - work and sexuality.
Dramatisation of W B Yeats’ verse play ‘The Dreaming of the Bones’.
Yeats lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Irish history, from the downfall of Parnell to the foundation of the Irish nation state. Presents both the historical context and Yeats’ own...
Tom Paulin shows how and why Seamus Heaney’s ‘Broagh’, a landscape poem, is also a political poem. He also discusses the relative importance of the sounds of a poem with what it’s about and finds...
Places the work of seven poets in their geographical and social context.
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