The Poetry of W B Yeats
Written by W B Yeats
Narrated by Jordan Gallagher, Kelly O'Doherty and Ghizela Rowe
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About this audiobook
His early years moved between Ireland and England. By his mid-teens he was writing but those works were described as ‘entirely Un-Irish’. With Ernest Rhys he founded the Rhymers Club. Based at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street it’s best described as a drinking club for performing poets. Yeats later cited them as ‘The Tragic Generation’. By now Yeats was writing and publishing poetry and stories that were profoundly based in Irish folklore.
Yeats is perhaps best described as Ireland’s national poet in addition to being one of the major twentieth-century literary figures of the English tongue. He represents the ‘Romantic poet of modernism,’ with an extraordinary style created from the outward emphasis on the expression of emotions and the extensive use of symbolism, imagery and allusions.
In 1923 his fame was brought to an even wider audience when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His personal life was driven by his many relationships in love and by his great interest in oriental mysticism and occultism. Yeats also wrote prose and drama and, as an ardent Nationalist, established himself as a spokesman of the Irish cause and served as an Irish senator for two terms.
W B Yeats died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28th January 1939. He was 73.
In modern times his contribution to literary modernism and to Irish nationalism remains incontestable. His sumptuous poetry elegantly envelopes the reader in a world very few can articulate but all know well. A legacy for everyone
1 - The Poetry of W B Yeats - An Introduction
2 - A Man Young and Old - I - First Love by W B Yeats
3 - A Man Young and Old - II - Human Dignity by W B Yeats
4 - A Man Young and Old - III - The Mermaid by W B Yeats
5 - A Man Young and Old - IV - The Death of the Hare by W B Yeats
6 - A Man Young and Old - V - The Empty Cup by W B Yeats
7 - A Man Young and Old - VI - His Memories
8 - A Man Young and Old - VII - The Friends of His Youth
9 - A Man Young and Old - VIII - Summer and Spring
10 - A Man Young and Old - IX - The Secrets of the Old
11 - A Man Young and Old - X - His Wildness
12 - A Man Young and Old - XI - From 'Oedipus at Colonus'
13 - A Cradle Song by W B Yeats
14 - A Prayer for My Daughter by W B Yeats
15 - The Mother of God by W B Yeats
16 - Among School Children by W B Yeats
17 - The Stolen Child by W B Yeats
18 - Long-Legged Fly by W B Yeats
19 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats
20 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats
21 - The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats
22 - Leda and the Swan by W B Yeats
23 - The Cat and the Moon by W B Yeats
24 - Those Dancing Days Are Gone by W B Yeats
25 - Imitated From The Japanese by W B Yeats
26 - All Things Can Tempt Me by W B Yeats
27 - A Statesman's Holiday by W B Yeats
28 - The Fascination of What's Difficult by W B Yeats
29 - A Drinking Song by W B Yeats
30 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats
31 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats
32 - The Song of Wandering Aengus by W B Yeats
33 - The Travail of Passion by W B Yeats
34 - The Falling of Leaves by W B Yeats
35 - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W B Yeats
36 - Down by the Salley Gardens by W B Yeats
37 - Quarrel in Old Age by W B Yeats
38 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats
39 - Under Saturn by W B Yeats
40 - To Ireland In The Coming Times by W B Yeats
41 - I Am of Ireland by W B Yeats
42 - The Second Coming by William Bu
W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.
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