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In the Seven Woods

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In the Seven Woods

by William Butler Yeats

English· 0:18:44· 14 chapters
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)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    01 - In the Seven Woods

    01:00
  2. Chapter 2

    02 - The Arrow

    00:42
  3. Chapter 3

    03 - The Folly of Being Comforted

    01:07
  4. Chapter 4

    04 - Old Memory

    01:00
  5. Chapter 5

    05 - Never Give All the Heart

    00:56
  6. Chapter 6

    06 - The Withering of the Boughs

    02:01
  7. Chapter 7

    07 - Adam's Curse

    02:22
  8. Chapter 8

    08 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland

    01:22
  9. Chapter 9

    09 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

    00:45
  10. Chapter 10

    10 - Under the Moon

    01:44
  11. Chapter 11

    11 - The Ragged Wood

    00:58
  12. Chapter 12

    12 - O Do Not Love Too Long

    00:44
  13. Chapter 13

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

    01:26
  14. Chapter 14

    14 - The Happy Townland

    02:37