ENG 209: Modern Irish Literature, Spring 2020 (CRN 49004)
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Selected Poetry

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  Seamus Heaney

  Richard Murphy

  Thomas Kinsella

  William Butler Yeats

  Louis MacNeice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Required Reading
(included in Handouts)

*Recommended reading
(not included in Handouts)

�The Stolen Child�

�Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven�

�The Lake Isle of Innisfree�

�The Balloon of the Mind�

�When You Are Old�

�The Fisherman �

�A Drinking Song�

�The Heart of the Woman�

�Adam�s Curse�

�An Irish Airman Foresees His Death�

�No Second Troy�

�The Living Beauty�

�The Wild Swans at Coole�

�The Magi�

�Easter, 1916�

�The Moods�

�The Second Coming�

�Never give all the heart�

�Sailing to Byzantium�

�The Player Queen�

�Leda and the Swan�

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�A Prayer for my Daughter�

�Among School Children�

�The Song of Wandering Aengus�

�Byzantium�

�The Sorrow of Love�

�Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop�

�To Ireland in the Coming Times�

�Lapis Lazuli�

�The Tower�

�Long-Legged Fly�

�The Young Man�s Song�

�The Circus Animals' Desertion�

�Who goes with Fergus?�

 

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Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

Required Reading
(included in Handouts)

*Recommended reading
(not included in Handouts)

�Carrickfergus�

�Bagpipe Music�

�The Sunlight on the Garden�

�The Brandy Glass�

�Autobiography�

�Christina�

�House On A Cliff�

�Eclogue by a Five-barred Gate�

�Soap Suds�

�Epilogue�

 

�June Thunder�

 

�Prayer Before Birth�

 

�Snow�

 

�Star-Gazer�

 

�The Suicide�

 

�Sunday Morning�

 

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Richard Murphy (1927-2018)

Required Reading
(included in Handouts)

*Recommended reading
(not included in Handouts)

�Rapparees�

�Little Hunger�

�Wolfhound�

�St. Gormgall's Well�

�Green Martyrs�

�The Poet on the Island�

�Orange March�

�Corncrake�

�Casement's Funeral�

�Hangman�

�High Island�

�Mangoes�

 

�Irish Bards and American Reviewers: An Exchange�

 

�Tinker�

 

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Thomas Kinsella (1928- )

Required Reading
(included in Handouts)

*Recommended reading
(not included in Handouts)

�At the Ocean's Edge�

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�Dream�

�Drowsing over the Arabian Nights�

�The Force of Eloquence�

 

�[I Put My Hand in my Bosom]�

 

�Mirror in February�

 

�Natural Life�

 

�Night Songs�

 

�Ritual of Departure�

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

Required Reading
(included in Handouts)

*Recommended reading
(not included in Handouts)

�Anything Can Happen�

�A Kite for Aibh�n�

�Blackberry-Picking�

�Act of Union�

�Bogland�

�Anahorish�

�Death of a Naturalist�

�Casualty�

�Digging�

�Clearances�

�From the Frontier of Writing�

�Docker�

�Mid-Term Break�

�The Early Purges�

�The Otter�

�Exposure�

�The Perch�

�Follower�

�Personal Helicon�

�From Lightenings�

�Strange Fruit�

�The Grauballe Man�

�The Tollund Man�

�Keeping Going�

 

�The Harvest Bow�

 

�Limbo�

 

�Lovers on Aran�

 

�Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication�

 

�Postscript�

 

�Requiem for the Croppies�

 

�Rite of Spring�

 

�Song�

 

�Tankas for Toraiwa�

 

�Testimony�

 

�Twice Shy�

 

 

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