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Advanced Module B

A Critical Study of Text

Text: William Butler Yeats

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Some online resources:
  • Yeats' life

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bio.html

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E392M/cp/Yeatsbio.htm

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/bio/yeats_w.htm

  • A Yeats timeline:

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mccready/yeats2.html  

  • Yeats' Ireland - images of Coole included

http://www.yeats-sligo.com/html/tour.html#

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rickard/Coole.html

  • Maud Gonne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Gonne

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ACgonne.htm

  • Yeats and the use of symbolism:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/168994/yeats_the_master_of_

symbolism.html

  • From Google books, an examination of Yeats' use of symbolism:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4UkzBmtUgEsC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=Yeats+and+symbolism&source=

web&ots=ABKVnBWyHO&sig=lNVohYdPIcVMw8eA1DTQSsuKYPk&hl=

en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4hrJWkbUDUAC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Yeats+and+

symbolism&source=web&ots=zMA7pD8dIF&sig=

F96q6JWAhKxEQITyhwaXh2_iFi4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=

book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

  • Yeats and the symbolism of the gyre:

http://www.crystalinks.com/gyresyeats.html

http://www.yeatsvision.com/Geometry.html

  • Yeats and Postcolonialism - analysis and extensive links

http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Yeats.html

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_2_47/ai_82531886

  • Yeats and nationalism

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_9_32/ai_70461593

The poems

  • An Irish Airman

Poem with notes and criticism:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/32.html

A reading of the poem:

http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/yeats/yeats.html

The Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Irish_Airman_Foresees_His_Death

  • When you are old

A reading of the poem

http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/yeats_when_you_are_old

  • Among School Children

Readings:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~splash/ASC.html

http://ireland.wlu.edu/landscape/Group3/analysis.htm

  • The Wild Swans at Coole

etext of the volume, Wild Swans at Coole:

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/y/yeats/william_butler/y4c/

  • Leda and the Swan

The Wikipedia entry on the myth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_and_the_Swan

An analysis of the poem from a visual perspective:

http://www.ionone.com/artbeystye.htm

A psycho-sexual reading:

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~erdemoz/Write/leda.html

  • Easter 1916 - includes Yeats' poem; an online exhibition

http://www.easter1916.net/ 

http://www.nli.ie/1916/index.html  

  • The Second Coming

Yeats and mysticism - reference to "The Second Coming"; explanation of 'gyres' and a Yeats' terminology

http://www.yeatsvision.com/

Wikipedia on the poem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)

 
 

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