Langdon Hammer continues his Yale course on Modern Poetry with a close reading of William Butler Yeats's late work. He traces the poet's preoccupation with knowledge, the body, and aging across poems including "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz," "Two Songs from a Play," and "Vacillation." Hammer examines Yeats's late fascination with joy, madness, and what the poet called gaiety in "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop," then sets the skeptical, demystifying view of art in "The Circus Animals' Destruction" against the celebratory stance of "Lapis Lazuli." The lecture moves poem by poem, reading passages aloud and unpacking their imagery and argument, building on the previous session's discussion of Yeats and magic. Recorded at Yale in Spring 2007 as part of ENGL 310, the session offers a sustained, text-based account of how Yeats's late style reworks his lifelong concerns with age, art, and the body.