In the Seven Woods
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)
Genre(s): Poetry
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | 01 - In the Seven Woods | Kasper |
00:01:00 |
| Play 02 | 02 - The Arrow | Kasper |
00:00:42 |
| Play 03 | 03 - The Folly of Being Comforted | Kasper |
00:01:07 |
| Play 04 | 04 - Old Memory | Kasper |
00:01:00 |
| Play 05 | 05 - Never Give All the Heart | Kasper |
00:00:56 |
| Play 06 | 06 - The Withering of the Boughs | Kasper |
00:02:01 |
| Play 07 | 07 - Adam's Curse | Kasper |
00:02:22 |
| Play 08 | 08 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland | Kasper |
00:01:22 |
| Play 09 | 09 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water | Kasper |
00:00:45 |
| Play 10 | 10 - Under the Moon | Kasper |
00:01:44 |
| Play 11 | 11 - The Ragged Wood | Kasper |
00:00:58 |
| Play 12 | 12 - O Do Not Love Too Long | Kasper |
00:00:44 |
| Play 13 | 13 - The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves | Kasper |
00:01:26 |
| Play 14 | 14 - The Happy Townland | Kasper |
00:02:37 |