W.B. Yeats: The Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart-audio

Description

Instructor: James Hollis, PhD

Most serious students of literature consider William Butler Yeats as the greatest poet of the last century.  This course considers his life, his loves, his varied engagements in Irish history, but most of all some of his enduring poems.  One finds many Jungian themes in this keen observer of the soul, in intimate relationship, in politics, and in the search for the transcendent.

6 classes, instant access by MP3 download, recorded in the summer of 2009.  

Required reading for the course:  Selected Poems and Four Plays of W.B. Yeats, M.L. Rosenthal, editor.

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