Glucksman Ireland House presents
Professor Terence Brown on “Modernism and Revolution: Re-reading Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’”
Tuesday, September 29th at 7pm
at Glucksman Ireland House NYU
“We know their dream; enough/To know they dreamed and are dead:” Distinguished literary scholar Professor Terence Brown, Trinity College Dublin, discusses Yeats’s apprehensive response to political violence and his ambivalent elegy for the men who died. Just three weeks after the rebellion he wrote to Lady Gregory “I am trying to write a poem on the men executed – 'terrible beauty has been born again.’… I am very despondent about the future. At the moment I feel that all the work of years has been overturned, all the bringing together of the classes, all the freeing of Irish literature and culture from politics.”
Presented in association with the W. B. Yeats Society of New York.