Voices of Ireland Lecture Series starts 2/23
[Unfortunately, there were not enough people signed up, and this series has been cancelled.]
Beginning February 23rd, Robert J. McCue is presenting an eight week lecture series, Voices of Ireland: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, every Monday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Windmill Suites in St. Phillip’s Plaza, at River and Campbell.
Explore the artistic development of two of Ireland’s most interesting literary figures and learn how the social and political upheavals of their times shaped and formed their poetry. Both received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Both were born on the same small island at the western edge of Europe, although separated by decades as well as political and religious views. Both poets, over years, developed universal appeal resulting in their lasting influence.
In this new eight-week class, you will study some of their major works and underlying inspirations: the poems “September 1913,” “Easter 1916,” “The Second Coming,” “ Meditations in Time of Civil War,” “Leda and the Swan,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “The National Gallery Re-visited,” and “The Circus Animals’ Desertion,” from Yeats; with Heaney, we’ll excerpt illustrative poems from his books: Death of a Naturalist(1966), Door into Dark(1969), WinteringOut (1972), North(1975), Field Work(1979), Station Island(1984), The Haw Lantern(1987), Seeing Things( 1991), The Spirit Level(1996), and Electric Light(2001).
Lectures will be supported by audio and audio-visual aides. Reading materials will be accessible through public domains on The Web or will be contained in hand outs.
Robert J. McCue has lectured extensively on Joyce and Yeats since retiring to Tucson. He holds an undergraduate degree from Northeastern University, a Master’s degree from the University of New Haven and has done postgraduate studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Southern Connecticut University and at Quinnipiac University. As a life-time avocation, he has read widely on the works and criticisms of James Joyce.
The series cost is $145.00 (about $9.00/hour), and advance registration is required. For further information contact The Learning Curve Tucson, 777-5817, or go to www.thelearningcurvetucson.com.
