Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Yeats exhibit online

Open Culture points us to an online exhibition of the work of William Butler Yeats, from the National Library of Ireland.

OC: When you enter the tour, you can scan through 200 artifacts & manuscripts and “attend” three in-depth tutorials exploring the evolution of three major poems (‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’). You can also listen to Yeats, one of Ireland’s towering poets, reciting his famous poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree.’ More...

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