English Literature

Week 30

Please read:

William Butler Yeats

• “When You Are Old”, p. 734.
• “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, p. 735.
• “The Wild Swans at Coole”, pp. 736-737.
• “Sailing to Byzantium”, p. 738.
• “The Second Coming”, p. 740-741.
• “Swift’s Epitaph”:

Swift has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-besotted traveller; he
Served human liberty.

“Themes: Social Class”, p. 696.

Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer”, pp. 698-722.

A selection of Conrad’s novels can be found at Project Gutenberg.