In the Seven Woods
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William Butler Yeats
(4,563 Sterne; 8 Bewertungen)
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) (0 hr 18 min)
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basically-satisfying reading of Yeats's poetry
False Grind
(3 Sterne)
The reader delivers these fine Yeats poems with accuracy of wording and an acceptability of voice tone. While a reader who can really change up his or her voice with rising and falling pitches and provide a higher level of gusto would be more fitting for the poetry of Yeats, this reader does the job with a more subdued, sometimes-lilting quality of voice -- which is good for what it is, but not terribly ideal here.