The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
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Narrated by:
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Jordan Gallagher
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Kelly O'Doherty
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Ghizela Rowe
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Written by:
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W. B. Yeats
About this listen
William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland, on 13th June 1865.
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 or listener 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
3 - A Man Young and Old - II - Human Dignity
4 - A Man Young and Old - III - The Mermaid
5 - A Man Young and Old - IV - The Death of the Hare
6 - A Man Young and Old - V - The Empty Cup
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
14 - A Prayer for My Daughter
15 - The Mother of God
16 - Among School Children
17 - The Stolen Child
18 - Long-Legged Fly
19 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers
20 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
21 - The Wild Swans at Coole
22 - Leda and the Swan
23 - The Cat and the Moon
24 - Those Dancing Days Are Gone
25 - Imitated From The Japanese
26 - All Things Can Tempt Me
27 - A Statesman's Holiday
28 - The Fascination of What's Difficult
29 - A Drinking Song
30 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
31 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
32 - The Song of Wandering Aengus
33 - The Travail of Passion
34 - The Falling of Leaves
35 - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved
36 - Down by the Salley Gardens
37 - Quarrel in Old Age
38 - The Secret Rose
39 - Under Saturn
40 - To Ireland In The Coming Times
41 - I Am of Ireland
42 - The Second Coming
43 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - I - Ancestral Homes
44 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - II - My House
45 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - III - My Table
46 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - IV - My Descendants
47 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - V - The Road at My Door
48 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - VI - The Stare's Nest By My Window
49 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - VII - I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's
50 - From A Full Moon in March - Parnells Funeral
51 - Easter 1916
52 - Come Gather Round Me, Parnelites
53 - September 1913
54 - The Ghost of Roger Casement
55 - The Apparitions
56 - Sixteen Dead Men
57 - An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
58 - He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven
59 - He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
60 - Men Improve with the Years
61 - When You Are Old
62 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
63 - The Wheel
64 - Sailing To Byzantium
65 - Death
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