Ep 22. Yeats as the Great 20th-Century Poet

While Joyce was sending his fictional hero off to become a great artist, Ireland€™s great real-life poetic hero Yeats was making his own transition from a mystic and romantic dreamer to a modernist poet, with a little guidance from Ezra Pound. As you watch this transition, reflect on the Protestant Ascendancy world from which Yeats emerged.