Questors Academy Literature Course Spring 2025
Come and read, enjoy, discuss, share your views and experiences of the multifarious poetry of WB Yeats. Love poet, lyric poet, political poet, symbolist and elegist, Yeats’ career spans decades of experimentation. In old age he discovered a solemnity which earned him recognition as one of the greatest of Modern poets.
The course tracks the development of the poet chronologically, selecting his greatest poems from each collection in turn.
We shall consider important contexts, from Yeats’ interest in Celtic mythology, spiritualism and the occult, Irish nationalism, his loves, milieu, and his relation to Romantic and Aesthetic writers.
Let’s engage with the man who was ‘afraid of insincerity, he struggled unsuccessfully to fuse or separate the several characters by whom he felt himself to be peopled’.
Enrolment Details
Courses are open to all. New participants are welcome.
Classes run on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00 in The Shaw Room.
Course fees are £120 before November the 31st, £125 afterwards (inclusive of photocopying costs). Term will start on January 14th and 15th. We will break for half-term week on February 18th and 19th, resume on February the 25th and 26th and end on March the 25th and 26th.
The poems and contextual resources will be provided as photocopies.
For further information and enquiries please reply to the e-mail address below:
alexander@thatliteratureguy.com
To book the course, transfer £125, or £120 (before November 31st) to:
Alexander Fairbairn-Dixon
Monzo Business Account
Sort Code: 04-00-04
Account Number: 43715503
Feel free to contact me if you wish to make alternative arrangements for payment.
