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The Great Poets: W. B. Yeats

By: W. B. Yeats
Narrated by: Jim Norton, Denys Hawthorne, Marcella Riordan, Nicholas Boulton
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Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets, represented by collections of their most popular poems in one program. W. B. Yeats was one of the most beloved poets of the 20th century. He left a large legacy of outstanding poems, and the finest are collected here: "Down by the Salley Gardens", "The Lake Isle of Inisfree", "The Secret Rose", and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven". They are read by a strong cast, led by Olivier award-winner Jim Norton.

Listen to more great poets, including William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, and John Keats.; Download the accompanying reference guide.©2007 Naxos Rights International (P)2007 Naxos Rights International European Poetry World Literature

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This volume in Naxos's Great Poets series offers 32 poems from Yeats's prodigious creative output, which spanned fifty years, from 1889 until his death at the dawn of WWII. Of the three readers, Denys Hawthorne is the most dramatic in poems such as "To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time," while Nicholas Boulton's younger voice highlights the playfulness of "The Fiddler of Dooney" and others. Jim Norton, meanwhile, handles the whole range of Yeats's verse with lyricism and authority. Commentary before some of the poems helpfully places them in context.
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Yeats is one of my fav most favourite poets and it's great to follow along with the text in your lap. Several narrators make this even better.

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The plethora of tones and descriptions allow the reader to be challenged by Yeats experiences and feelings while provoking thought and stimulating the mind.

An ethereal and inexorable book of human emotion

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