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In the Seven Woods

Gelesen von Kasper

(4,563 Sterne; 8 Bewertungen)

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

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02 - The Arrow

0:42

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03 - The Folly of Being Comforted

1:07

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04 - Old Memory

1:00

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05 - Never Give All the Heart

0:56

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06 - The Withering of the Boughs

2:01

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07 - Adam's Curse

2:22

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08 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland

1:22

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09 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

0:45

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10 - Under the Moon

1:44

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11 - The Ragged Wood

0:58

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12 - O Do Not Love Too Long

0:44

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13 - The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves

1:26

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14 - The Happy Townland

2:37

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Bewertungen

basically-satisfying reading of Yeats's poetry

(3 Sterne)

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.