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.
Latest episodes of the podcast In The Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats
- 01 - In the Seven Woods
- 02 - The Arrow
- 03 - The Folly of Being Comforted
- 04 - Old Memory
- 05 - Never Give All the Heart
- 06 - The Withering of the Boughs
- 07 - Adam's Curse
- 08 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland
- 09 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
- 10 - Under the Moon
- 11 - The Ragged Wood
- 12 - O Do Not Love Too Long
- 13 - The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves
- 14 - The Happy Townland