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William Butler Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter
W. B. Yeats In this section of our poetry study, we’ll consider representative works by well-known poets, members of the established literary canon. I’ll give brief introductions in the lectures, so that you can understand where the poets “fit” in history and in literary history. Most of our attention, however, will be on the texts […]
Stevie Smith’s Poetry
A search of library resources on British poet Stevie Smith reveals that scholarly interest in her poetry has deepened in the nearly half-century that has passed since her death in 1971. The following analyses focus on five poems by a writer who to date has famously defied attempts at categorisation, and who was truly a […]