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Seminars in 2008

Each student (except those involved with the Drama Workshop) attends one seminar group per week. Seminars are kept relatively small in order to promote lively discussion. There are reading assignments, but no written assignments.

Week One:                           (Monday - Friday)         4.30-6.00pm
Jonathan Allison:                 Introducing Yeats  

Catherine Paul:                   Yeats: From A Vision to The Tower

 
Patrick Crotty:                       Yeats's influence
Terence Brown:                   Yeats as public poet
Anne Margaret Daniel:       Yeats and the Nineties
James Pethica:                   Yeats, Synge, Gregory and the Abbey
Margaret Mills Harper:       Yeatsian visions  
Joe Hassett:                         Yeats's muses
Tim Webb                              Yeats: Making Poems
 
 

Week Two:                         (Monday - Thursday)         4.30-6.00pm

Alan Riach:                           Language, form and the national voice:

                                                Yeats and others

Catherine Paul:                   Two poets: Yeats and Ezra Pound

Massimo Bacigalupo        :Travels in Italy With the Poets:

                                                Byron to Yeats to Joyce:                

Cahal Dallat:                         Yeats: The Making of a Rhymer
Ron Schuchard                     Yeats's Late Poems 1933-39
Hugh Haughton                    Yeats's Modernity