English 333 - Two Irish Poets: Yeats/Heaney

A study in depth of two poets whose careers span the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. We will read poems, essays, and dramatic works by these two Nobel Prize winners with attention to their treatment of Ireland's legendary past and troubled recent history; to other themes of love and loss, nature and art; and to their explorations of the stylistic tensions and opportunities felt by Irish poets writing English verse.