You can opt to attend this teaching event either online (via a livestream) or in person at Rewley House, Oxford. You will be given the option of how you wish to attend during the enrolment process. You can only pick one option. If your preferred attendance format is fully booked, you can email us to be put on the waiting list. For those who wish to attend online, please read the IT requirements below before enrolling.
W.B. Yeats was one of the most influential and important poets of the twentieth century. During his long career, his poetry had many forms.
This hybrid day school looks at Yeats’s writing during the 1920s and 30s, when his style and themes had moved away from the Romantic, lyrical, folklore and nationalist-inspired earlier work to something more hard-edged and, arguably, Modernist.
Please note: this event will close to enrolments at 23:59 UTC on 5 February 2025.
9.45am
Registration at Rewley House reception (in-person attendees)
10am
Yeats and difficulty
Tara Stubbs
11.15am
Tea/coffee
11.45am
Yeats's Modernism
Sandie Byrne
1pm
Lunch
2pm
Yeats and violence
Jane Potter
3.15pm
Tea/coffee
3.45pm
Panel discussion
All speakers
5pm
End of day
| Description | Costs |
|---|---|
| Course Fee - in-person attendance (includes tea/coffee) | £120.00 |
| Course Fee - virtual attendance | £110.00 |
| Baguette Lunch | £7.30 |
| Hot Lunch | £19.25 |
If you are in receipt of a UK state benefit or are a full-time student in the UK you may be eligible for a reduction of 50% of tuition fees.
Tara Stubbs is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at OUDCE, and a Fellow of Kellogg College Oxford. For 2017–2020 she was the Academic Programme Director of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. Her first book was American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910–1955 (2013), which was re-issued in paperback in 2017. Her interests include American and Irish literature, modernism and poetry, and she has published widely in these fields. In 2017 she co-edited the essay collection Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture (2017), and her second monograph, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020, was The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion.
Sandie Byrne is Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Studies in English, OUDCE and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing.
Jane Potter is Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include The Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen (Oxford University Press, 2023), A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and, with Carol Acton, Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in War Zones (Manchester University Press, 2015).
Please use the 'Book' button on this page. Alternatively, please contact us to obtain an application form.
Accommodation is not included in the price, but if you wish to stay with us the night before the course, then please contact our Residential Centre.
Accommodation in Rewley House - all bedrooms are modern, comfortably furnished and each room has tea and coffee making facilities, Freeview television, and Free WiFi and private bath or shower rooms. Please contact our Residential Centre on +44 (0) 1865 270362 or email res-ctr@conted.ox.ac.uk for details of availability and discounted prices.
We will be using Zoom for the livestreaming of this event. If you’re attending online, you’ll be able to see and hear the speakers, and to submit questions via the Zoom interface. Joining instructions will be sent out prior to the start date. We recommend that you join the session at least 10-15 minutes prior to the start time – just as you might arrive a bit early at our lecture theatre for an in-person event.
Please note that this course will not be recorded.
