Background Readings

Note: The readings in this section are for the use of the students in Professor Greene's ENTC 311 only. No further use is intended or authorized.

• Seamus Deane's "Irish modernism: poetry and drama" (1986)
• Critical Notes on Synge
• Contextual Notes on "Cathleen ni Houlihan"
• Contextual Notes on "The Dreaming of the Bones"
• A Wee Bit o' Irish History
• Easter Rising
• Yeats on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
• Yeats on Oscar Wilde
• Judith Kitchen on "Easter 1916"
• Elizabeth Cullingford, Critique of "Leda and the Swan"
• B.C. Southam, A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot, on reserve, Clemons Library
• Contextual notes on "Purgatory"