Welcome to the Tower!
This project aims to track how Yeats’ 1928 volume The Tower was assembled, following the volume’s individual poems from their first publication to their placement in The Tower. Our intent […]

The Tower (1928)

Sailing to Byzantium

The Tower
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
The Wheel

Youth and Age
The New Faces
A Prayer for My Son
Two […]

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your […]

Yeats’s early poetry focused on his three main interests: art, spiritualism and cultural nationalism. Yeats drew on his childhood summers spent in Sligo in much of his work during this period, as he reimagined […]

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This is the project website for the Fall 2018 Enterprises: Editing Yeats course. Our group has chosen to do an advanced annotation project to explore the ways that Maud Gonne changes in Yeats’ poems, as his views […]

ENGL 203-01 Fall 2018
Professor Sam Fallon
Course description
Why do we care about fictional characters? That we do care about them seems to be a basic fact of reading: we open books at least in part because of […]

ENGL 203-02 Fall 2018
Professor Melanie Blood
Course description

This course will use plays written by and about Americans in the last fifty years, heavily weighted toward plays of the last ten years, as an […]

ENGL 203-03 Fall 2018
Professor Beth McCoy

Course description

The 200 level in the literature track provides students with an introduction to the discipline through the study of particular topics, issues, […]

ENGL 203-04 Fall 2018
Professor Paul Schacht
Course description
Reader and Text is an introduction to the practice of literary criticism and the questions that practice engenders. These questions represent the […]

Reader and Text is the website of SUNY Geneseo’s introductory course for English majors. It’s part of the English @ SUNY Geneseo network of sites, which provides a platform for Geneseo students and faculty in […]