Yeats Now: why we still need W.B. Yeats’s poetry
The Embassy of Ireland and Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University, in association with Solas Nua, Poetry Ireland, and Georgetown’s Humanities Initiative, present:
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Yeats Now: why we still need W.B. Yeats’s poetry
A celebration of Joseph M. Hassett’s latest book, featuring actor Lisa Dwan, poets Paula Meehan and Teri Cross Davis, Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, and more. Moderated by Cóilín Parsons, Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University.
Tuesday, January 19, 5:00 pm EST. This will be on online webinar, hosted on the Zoom platform
W.B. YEATS believed that lyrics can “take on a second beauty, passing as it were out of literature and becoming life.” By focusing on Yeats’s most memorable lines of poetry, Joseph Hassett’s latest book, Yeats Now: Echoing into Life, reveals new ways of enjoying a body of work that speaks to the twenty-first century.
Join us as we consider Yeats’s legacy and the enduring power of poetry, and hear from award-winning poets and artists Lisa Dwan, Paula Meehan, Teri Cross Davis, and more.