In the Seven Woods
William Butler Yeats
Read by Kasper
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) (0 hr 18 min)
Chapters
01 - In the Seven Woods | 1:00 | Read by Kasper |
02 - The Arrow | 0:42 | Read by Kasper |
03 - The Folly of Being Comforted | 1:07 | Read by Kasper |
04 - Old Memory | 1:00 | Read by Kasper |
05 - Never Give All the Heart | 0:56 | Read by Kasper |
06 - The Withering of the Boughs | 2:01 | Read by Kasper |
07 - Adam's Curse | 2:22 | Read by Kasper |
08 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland | 1:22 | Read by Kasper |
09 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water | 0:45 | Read by Kasper |
10 - Under the Moon | 1:44 | Read by Kasper |
11 - The Ragged Wood | 0:58 | Read by Kasper |
12 - O Do Not Love Too Long | 0:44 | Read by Kasper |
13 - The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves | 1:26 | Read by Kasper |
14 - The Happy Townland | 2:37 | Read by Kasper |
Reviews
basically-satisfying reading of Yeats's poetry
False Grind
The reader delivers these fine Yeats poems with accuracy of wording and an acceptability of voice tone. While a reader who can really change up his or her voice with rising and falling pitches and provide a higher level of gusto would be more fitting for the poetry of Yeats, this reader does the job with a more subdued, sometimes-lilting quality of voice -- which is good for what it is, but not terribly ideal here.