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LECTURES

The Yeats International Summer School attracts high calibre lecturers from around the world.
                                                            Lectures in 2008:

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