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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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