"The Hosting of the Sidhe," Yeats

[switchercat]

A class of mine is focusing on Yeats, at least for a good chunk of time, and going through his work more or less in order. I'm likely to be posting a bunch of slightly obscure Yeats in the next month or so. This early stuff is mixed in quality, but very earnest. I'm glad to be reading it

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[stormydown]

I look forward to seeing which poems you post! /writing her Masters thesis on Yeats

[switchercat]

Awesome! What sort of stuff are you looking at for your thesis? This course I'm taking is about Modernism (we'll also be looking at T. S. Eliot), so I think my professor's having us read poems that she thinks show the development of a Modernist style, and I'll be picking my favorites among those.

(edit: not that this poem is such a great example of that -- but that's the rough idea.)

[stormydown]

My thesis is specifically addressing Yeats's poems about Maud Gonne's daughter Iseult. I'm actually looking at his manuscript drafts of several of these poems and studying how his revision process reflects his constantly-shifting attitudes toward Iseult as part-daughter, part-potential lover figure.

Your course sounds great! I was actually in Dublin for 8 weeks this summer and the first 3 weeks was spent attending an Irish Seminar through Notre Dame where the topic was Irish Modernisms. Eliot was brought up in several lectures because of his overall preference for the UK's way of doing things.

[stormydown]

*first 3 weeks were spent. Yeesh, typing fast.