ENGL 240G

Yeats, Kavanagh and Heaney: Ireland's Modern Irish Poets

Yeats, often considered a modernist and a poet in the British tradition, saw himself primarily as an Irish poet working within distinctly Irish literary traditions. Focuses on Yeats' conception of a national, ethnic poetry and the effect that mission had on Ireland's other two major 20th century poets--Kavanagh and Heaney. Students analyze Yeats' most influential work; Kavanagh and Heaney are studied in terms of their debt to Yeats and their individual expressions of national consciousness.

Units: 3.0