In the Seven Woods by YEATS, William Butler

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In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride. (Summary by Kasper Nijsen)

  • 1 minute
    01 - In the Seven Woods
  • 42 seconds
    02 - The Arrow
  • 1 minute 7 seconds
    03 - The Folly of Being Comforted
  • 1 minute
    04 - Old Memory
  • 56 seconds
    05 - Never Give All the Heart
  • 2 minutes 1 second
    06 - The Withering of the Boughs
  • 2 minutes 22 seconds
    07 - Adam's Curse
  • 1 minute 22 seconds
    08 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland
  • 45 seconds
    09 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
  • 1 minute 44 seconds
    10 - Under the Moon
  • 58 seconds
    11 - The Ragged Wood
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