Yeats Conversations

Welcome to Yeats Conversations!

Below you’ll find a series of discussions with scholars from around the world about individual Yeats works and Yeats-related topics. The aim is to provide a resource for people who enjoy Yeats and are interested in learning more about his writings. The conversations are just that—conversations. They are not academic lectures, nor are they basic study guides. Instead, they are free flowing discussions that should be accessible to newcomers while also providing fresh insights for those who have been studying Yeats for years.

The conversations are open to anyone, so please feel free to share them. We do, though, ask that people include a citation to the website and specific Yeats scholar when referencing these conversations in their own writings, including academic publications and essays for university or high school courses.

The list is continually being updated, so be sure to check back in.

Poems

"An Irish Airman Foresees his Death"
(w/ Joe Valente)

“Coole Park, 1929”
(w/ Adam Hanna)

“In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markievicz"”
(w/ Lucy Collins)

“Among School Children”
(w/ Charles Armstrong)

“Coole and Ballylee, 1931”
(w/ Stephanie Burt)

“Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland”
(w/ Martin Enright)

Mohini Chatterjee
(w/ Ashim Dutta)

“The Valley of the Black Pig”
(w/ Maureen Murphy)

“All Souls’ Night”
(w/ Adrian Paterson)

“Lapis Lazuli”
(w/ Barry Sheils)

“Byzantium”
(w/ Margaret Mills Harper)

“The Cold Heaven”
(w/ David Holdeman)

“The Wild Swans at Coole”
(w/ Stephen Regan)

“Adam’s Curse”
(w/ Alexandra Poulain)

“Meru”
(w/ Matt Campbell)

Meditations in Time of Civil War
(w/ Gregory Castle)

Michael Robartes and the Dancer
(w/ Hedwig Schwall)

"A Crazed Girl"
(w/ Inés Bigot)

Plays

"The Land of Heart's Desire"
(w/ Zsuzsanna Balázs)

"The Cat and the Moon"
(w/ Akiko Manabe)

Translating "The Second Coming" Into Persian
(w/ Seyed-Saleh Hosseini)

Yeats, Tagore, and Gitanjali
(w/ Ragini Mohite)

Poems

"An Irish Airman Foresees his Death"(w/ Joe Valente)

“Coole Park, 1929”(w/ Adam Hanna)

“In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markievicz"”(w/ Lucy Collins)

“Among School Children”(w/ Charles Armstrong)

“Coole and Ballylee, 1931”(w/ Stephanie Burt)

“Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland”(w/ Martin Enright)

Mohini Chatterjee(w/ Ashim Dutta)

“The Valley of the Black Pig”(w/ Maureen Murphy)

“All Souls’ Night”(w/ Adrian Paterson)

“Lapis Lazuli”(w/ Barry Sheils)

“Byzantium”(w/ Margaret Mills Harper)

“The Cold Heaven”(w/ David Holdeman)

“The Wild Swans at Coole”(w/ Stephen Regan)

“Adam’s Curse”(w/ Alexandra Poulain)

“Meru”(w/ Matt Campbell)

Meditations in Time of Civil War(w/ Gregory Castle)

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (w/ Hedwig Schwall)

"A Crazed Girl"(w/ Inés Bigot)