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What They Said
LECTURES
Week One
Monday 28th July
Patrick Crotty (University of Aberdeen)
Every paddler's heritage: Yeats and modern poetry
Anne Margaret Daniel(New School, New York)
Cantons of contemned love: Yeats and Olivia
Tuesday 29th July
Ann Saddlemyer(University of Victoria, British Colombia)
Music in Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory and Shaw
Peter McDonald (Oxford University)
W.B. Yeats and/or T.S. Eliot: The Choice
Wednesday 30th July
James Pethica(Williams College)
Lady Gregory and 'Easter 1916'
Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin
Yeats and Dance
Thursday 31st July
Margaret Mills Harper(Georgia State University)
Riddled with Light: Yeats Exposed
Joe Hassett (Independent Scholar)
Yeats and the Muse
Friday 1st August
Tim Webb:
Yeats and London
Jonathan Allison (University of Kentucky)
Yeats, Coole and Ballylee
Week Two
Monday 4th August
Wes Davis (Yale University)
Parodying Yeats
John Kerrigan (Cambridge University)
Louis MacNeice Among the Islands
Tuesday 5th August
Cahal Dallat(Independent Scholar)
'Lute-Thronged, Rook-Delighting Suburb:
Bedford Park and Playing at Ireland
(Yeats Family Lecture)
Hugh Haughton ( University of York)
Building The Tower
Wednesday 6th August
Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen
Yeats and Science
Catherine Paul (Clemson University)
From Stone Cottage to Rapallo: Yeats and Ezra Pound
Thursday 7th August
Alan Riach(University of Glasgow)
Yeats and Hugh MacDiarmid
Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway)
Staging the Afterlife: Yeats's Purgatory
Friday 8th August
Massimo Bacigalupo (University of Genoa)
Yeats and Italy
Ron Schuchard (Emory University)
Last Poems: Yeats in extremis