Streaming video - W.H. Auden discusses the changing role of the hero in poetry and recites excerpts from The Shield of Achilles and In Memory of W. B. Yeats.
Eliot, perhaps the most significant of the new wave of Symbolists of the 1920’s, startled the world of poetry and spoke for a lost generation in The Waste Land, engaged literary critics with his landmark book of criticism, The Sacred Wood, and wrote the most successful verse play of the twentieth century, The Cocktail Party.
As a poet, Loy was an immensely talented and bold innovator. Her role in the Modernist movement, while overlooked for many years, has become more central to scholars’ understanding of the period. The number of critical studies and biographies of Loy produced in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century suggests that Loy’s work will continued to be valued.
This program focuses on six of Yeats's poems from his mature years: "No Second Troy," "September 1913," "The Fisherman," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Among School Children," and "The Circus Animals' Desertion." Each segment consists of a dramatized reading intercut with interpretive commentary, followed by an uninterrupted replay of the reading.
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
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