11:50 -- Break for refreshment.
12 -- Lady Gregory and the writing of EASTER 1916- -- James Pethica (Willams) draws on work for his authorized biography of Augusta Gregory for Oxford University Press.
12:50 -- Luncheon at Café Español, 172 Bleecker Street at Sullivan. Soup or salad; select one of two dozen entrees; flan and coffee; choice of Sangria, wine, beer or soda... all for $16 if reserved and paid by deadline..
2:10 -- Frank O'Connor' Yeats -- Michael Steinman (Nassau CC) talks about how O'Connor, who knew WBY at close range, delighted in the great man’s contradictions, portraying the poet, in his autobiography and essays, as at once an infuriating bully and manipulator, a domestic man, a comic figure, and the most influential artist he ever knew.
3 PM -- The Afterlife of Cuchulainn -- "I want a hero," announced Lord Byron at the beginning of Don Juan. What poet does not? Yeats found in Cuchulainn a hero for his entire artistic lifetime, from his earliest lyrics through many plays to his late great poems. Anne Margaret Daniel (New School, associate director of the 2008 summer school) focuses on Yeats’s Cuchulainn and his artistic heirs.
3:50 - Ken Monteith (LaGuardia CC) speaks briefly as we launch his Yeats and Theosophy (Routledge Press).
4-5 -- Book launch, social and a Summer School reunion. Wine and refreshments..
Fees Entire program, including refreshments, the afternoon social and the plays is $45 ($29 without lunch); morning only $19; afternoon with social $25; social only $10, . Send a check to WB Yeats Society of NY, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC 10003 with your name, address, phone number, e-mail. Put the date on your calendar; your name will be on a registration list at the door. Fees are $5 more at door. No phone calls, please. Check our website: www.YeatsSociety.org or write us for information about the Summer School, and about membership, our poetry competition and our other programs.
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