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Easter, 1916 Lesson Plan

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Yeats published over 30 poetry collections during his lifetime. Some of his most popular poems include: "Leda and the Swan"; "Death"; "The Second Coming"; "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"; "Long-Legged Fly"; "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"; "Sailing to Byzantium"; "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"; "Among School Children."

Contemporaries and successors of Yeats include T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden.

For works by other Irish poets, please consider George William Russell; Jane Wilde; Thomas Moore; Patrick Kavanagh; Cecil Day Lewis; Samuel Beckett; Seamus Heaney; Eavan Boland; John Montague.

To learn more about the Easter Rising, see: The Easter Rebellion by Max Caulfield; ...

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