Yeats As The Great 20th-century Poet

While Joyce was sending his fictional hero off to become a great artist, Ireland’s great real-life poetic hero Ye... (more)

While Joyce was sending his fictional hero off to become a great artist, Ireland’s great real-life poetic hero Yeats was making his own transition from a mystic and romantic dreamer to a modernist poet, with a little guidance from Ezra Pound. As you watch this transition, reflect on the Protestant Ascendancy world from which Yeats emerged. (less)