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31 Yeats in the Media
Get accessEmilie Morin is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York. She has published widely on Irish modernism. Her articles on Yeats have appeared in the Yeats Annual and the Historical Journal of Radio, Film and Television, and she has recently edited a special issue of International Yeats Studies on Yeats and mass communications with David Dwan. Her most recent book is Beckett’s Political Imagination.
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Published:18 July 2023
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Yeats’s world was always the world of mass media, and his work was widely reproduced from early on, via official as well as unofficial channels: he was the solemn poet published by Macmillan and one of the dramatists of the American Little Leather Library; his poetry was presented to the readers of The New York Times, the New Statesman, and a wide range of newspapers and magazines of different political persuasions; he was a prolific journalist and reviewer, his opinions on literature appearing across the political spectrum, from The Irish Homestead to The Manchester Playgoer through to Harper’s Weekly; he was also an easily irritated Irish citizen who enjoyed crafting letters to the editor of The Irish Times, and a poet courted by the BBC, who transformed his lifelong reflection on the performance of poetry into a broadcasting success. His engagement with modern media was a large-scale rhetorical experiment: he transferred his experience from one medium to another, taking his experience as poetry anthologist, public reader and jack-of-all-trades journalist into the radio studio, a poet who was transformed into a gifted and prominent mass communicator.
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