The Singing Horseman, by Jack B. Yeats
Fall 2008
The Singing Horseman, by Jack B. Yeats
Focus Poem Memorization Assignment
Focus Poem Presentation List and Schedule
Weekly Response Paper Assignment
Reserve Reading List for ENGL 326
My Irish Studies Webpage (including Irish History Links)
Photographs: Coole Park and Ballylee
Images related to "Easter 1916"
My Irish History PowerPoint Presentation (click to download)
Links:
Selected Poems and Reference Resources:
Project Bartleby's collection of Yeats's poems from three collections -- The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916), and The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) -- provides bibliographic references for the volumes and reliable texts
Poetry X Yeats Archive -- a comprehensive, well-organized collection of 364 Yeats poems online
E-Text Library of Yeats's poetry at California State University, Northridge -- An extensive database provided by Professor Warren Wedin
English Research "Room" on ISR Website (available only to Bucknell faculty, staff and students) -- Here you can find links to the LION full-text database (biography, poems, and selected critical works on Yeats), Studies in Irish Literature (reference resources on Yeats and other Irish writers), and other relevant databases
Useful Yeats Pages:
Interactive Yeats Online Exhibition -- Created by the National Library of Ireland
Yeats Society, Sligo -- The official web site of the Sligo Yeats Society, including a link to the Yeats International Summer School
Sam McCready's Yeats Chronology
The Visible Yeats and The Audible Yeats -- A useful collection of Yeats images that elucidate the poems and five audio files of Yeats reading his poems
Yeats Seminar Page at California State, Northridge -- Extensive Yeats links and resources from Professor Warren Wedin's Yeats seminar
Yeats Links Page -- An excellent and extensive resource. Contains links to a number of e-texts of Yeats's writings
Yeats's A Vision -- Neil Mann's helpful pages on Yeats's occult system as expounded in A Vision
Yeats Country -- A nice collection of photographs of Sligo and environs by Frank Ludwig
Related Pages:
Irish Studies Webpage (including Irish History Links)
Irish History PowerPoint Presentation (click to download)
Celtic Folklore--a copious collection of early Irish epic tales, fairy tales, and folk tales
The Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnThe Theosophical Society in America
The Theosophical Society International Headquarters (I'm not sure of the distinction between the organizations represented on this page and the preceding page)
Poetic Terms:
Glossary of Poetic Terms, by Ian Lancashire, Department of English, University of Toronto. A little dense but very thorough. Includes links to examples for many terms
Poetic Terms, by Al Filreis at Penn
Poetic Language, Meter, and Form:
An easy-to-view and basic slide show on "Metrics," by Sam Schuman
"Introduction to Meter," by Timothy Steele, English Department, California State University, Los Angeles
Timothy Steele's Introduction to "Rhyme and Stanza
PowerPoint presentation on Poetic Meter by Dr. Linda Lovell
PowerPoint presentation on Figurative Language by Dr. Linda Lovell
A table of stanza forms, with numerous examples, by H. T. Kirby-Smith
A table of poetic meters, with numerous examples, by H. T. Kirby-Smith
An "Introduction to Sound and Meter" from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Barbara Mathieson's "Scanning Poetry: A Self-Study Unit"
Jack Lynch's "Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms"
Jack Lynch's web page on "Meter"
Timothy Steele's "Introduction to Meter"
You can e-mail me at rickard@bucknell.edu
