W. B. Yeats Poems, William Butler Yeats
W. B. Yeats Poems, William Butler Yeats
List: $7.67 | Sale: $5.37
Club: $3.83

W. B. Yeats: Poems

Author: William Butler Yeats

Narrator: T.P. McKenna

Unabridged: 1 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2006

Synopsis

This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of his old age. Works of precision, economy and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "Byzantium," and "Leda and the Swan."

About William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. Born and educated in Dublin, he studied poetry in his youth and, from an early age, was fascinated by Irish legend and the occult. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. He is generally considered one of the twentieth century’s key English language poets. He was a Symbolist poet, in that he used allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. In 1923 he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as “inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.” He was the first Irishman so honored. He is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Belinda

4 stars - English ebook I studied some of Yeats poems while at school and decided to revisit his works 35 years later. This book is a collection of most of his best ones and gives a good flavour of the poet’s oeuvre. Yeats was very much a romantic poet and many of the poems are lyrical odes to beauti......more

Goodreads review by Lori

I enjoyed some poems better than others. I listened to this in an audio format, read by T. P. McKenna. It was my first time to listen to poetry in the audiobook format, and I found it more difficult to follow than poems in print. I think a longer pause between poems would help transition from one to......more

Goodreads review by Grant

Not sure how to even begin this review. Yeats showed incredible deftness in complete directness or obfuscation, and fluctuated on every point between them. I felt almost no laziness in his work, finding him much more similar to Bogan than Roethke, which surprised me; Yeats had an attention to detail......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List