6. William Butler Yeats (cont. )

Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer Yeats s late poetry is discussed and interpreted. The poet s interest in human knowledge and its relationship to the body, particularly the aging body, is traced from Leda and the Swan to Sailing to Byzantium, In Memory of Eva GoreBooth and Con Markievicz, Two Songs from a Play, and Yeats s late interest in the experiences of joy, madness, and gaiety is examined in Crazy Jane Talks with the Yeats s demystifying attitude towar