William Butler Yeats

The Celtic Twilight

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William Butler Yeats



I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy…

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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William Butler Yeats



This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…

The Wind Among the Reeds

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William Butler Yeats



William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from a…

The Wanderings of Oisin

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This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…

Crossways

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The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a No…

John Sherman and Dhoya

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William Butler Yeats



In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…

When You Are Old

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3rd,…

In the Seven Woods

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In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the de…

Easter, 1916

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats. This was the fortnightly poetry project for April 5th, 2…

The Wild Swans at Coole

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The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that col…

The Magi

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Magi, by William Butler Yeats to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. This was …

The Song of Wandering Aengus

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LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus, by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate …

The Fiddler of Dooney

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Decembe…

The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)

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A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…

Where My Books Go

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LibriVox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry proje…

All Things Can Tempt Me

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of All Things Can Tempt Me by W. B. Yeats, from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912). This wa…

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

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LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekl…

A Drinking Song

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LibriVox volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of A Drinking Song from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912) by William Butler Yeat…

A Full Moon in March


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The Dolls

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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British li…

The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2)

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The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…

The Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica

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Celebrated poet and author William Butler Yeats has graced us, in The Secret Rose, with a hauntingly beautiful collection of mystical storie…

The Tower

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The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

A Deep-Sworn Vow

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This is the weekly poem for the week of 10.01.2016. Have fun. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

After Long Silence


William Butler Yeats



Yeats’s poem ‘After Long Silence’ was written late in life. In it, he reflects on his relationship with the author Olivia Shakespear.

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time

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William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean

The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi

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The first two tales involve the persona's relationship with a certain Aherne, who has come into possession of a beautiful book by Joachim of…

Responsibilities

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Responsibilities is a collection of poetry by W.B. Yeats, originally published in 1914 together with a play. The 1916 edition used for this …

In the Seven Woods (Version 2)

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In the Seven Woods is a collection of poems originally published in 1903. This recording follows The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of W…

Early Ballads and Lyrics

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Poems collected under the rubric Early Poems: Ballads and Lyrics in The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Volume 1…

The Rose

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This recording of Yeats' second poetry collection follows The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (1908), which place…

The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 3)

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The Wind Among the Reeds is a collection of poems originally published in 1899. This recording follows The Collected Works in Verse and Pros…

From The Green Helmet and Other Poems

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William Butler Yeats



This audiobook includes all poems from W.B. Yeats's collection The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912), excepting the verse drama from which…

The Well and The Tree

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of title by Author.This was the Weekly Poetry project for ------William Butler Yeats, popula…