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Readings and interpretations of four poems by the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats: the rustic simplicity of \u201cThe Lake Isle of Innisfree\u201d; the tender regret of \u201cWhen You Are Old\u201d; the evocative weariness of \u201cAdam\u2019s Curse\u201d;  and the apocalyptic thrill of \u201cThe Second Coming.\u201d

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• Here is my YouTube video about Yeats\u2019 \u201cLeda and the Swan."
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• Sprezzatura is the Italian term I mention, for seemingly careless artificiality or "studied carelessness" (OED); it first appeared in The Book of the Courtier (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione.
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• CORRECTION: At the end, I mistakenly say that the next episode is on Samuel Beckett -- but it is actually on Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse (1927).
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