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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
- Narrated by: William Butler Yeats, Siobhan McKenna
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
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Summary
A wonderful selection of Yeats' finest work, read by the author himself along with Siobhan McKenna and others.
01 - The Fiddler of Dooney - William Butler Yeats
02 - The Wild Swans At Coole - Cyril Cusack
03 - To The Rose Upon The Rood of Time - Michael MacLiammoir
04 - Leda And The Swan - Siobhan McKenna
05 - The Lady Songs - Siobhan McKenna
06 - Under Ben Bulben - Michael MacLiammoir
07 - The Second Coming - Cyril Cusack
08 - The Crazed Moon - Siobhan McKenna
09 - The Song of Wandering Aengus - Cyril Cusack
10 - To Ireland in the Coming Times - Michael MacLiammoir
11 - A Coat - Siobham McKenna
12 - After Long Silence - Siobham McKenna
13 - Young Man's Song - Siobhan McKenna
14 - Her Anxiety - Siobham McKenna
15 - News For The Delphic Oracle
16 - A Man Young and Old - Siobhan McKenna
17 - The People - Michael MacLiammoir
18 - Broken Dreams - Cyril Cusack
19 - The Mask - Siobham McKenna
20 - The Rose Tree - V C Clinton-Baddeley
21 - Lapis Lazuli - Cyril Cusack
22 - The Cat And The Moon - Siobhan McKenna
23 - No Second Troy - Cyril Cusack
24 - Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad - Cyril Cusack
25 - Those Dancing Days Are Gone - Siobhan McKenna
26 - The Song of the Old Mother - William Butler Yeats
27 - Sailing To Byzantium - Cyril Cusack
28 - A Crazy Girl - Siobhan McKenna
29 - The Rose of the World - Michael MacLiammoir
30 - The Chambermaid's Songs - Siobhan Mckenna
31 - A Dialogue of Self and Soul - Cyril Cusack
32 - Byzantium - Cyril Cusack
33 - Crazy Jane On The Mountain - Siobhan McKenna
34 - The Lover's Song - Siobhan McKenna
35 - Cuchulain Comforted - Cyril Cusack
36 - A Last Confession - Siobhan Mckenna
37 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree - Cyril Cusack
38 - Girl's Song - Siobhan McKenna
39 - Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop
40 - The Wild Old Wicked Man - Cyril Cusack
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- F. Wynn
- 08-09-15
Very disappointing
This is awful. The poems are repeated twice which is annoying. The reading is not consistent. Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack are fair but W.B.Yeats's rendition of the poems is dreadful. I have not rated it as it does not deserve even one star. It is a very old recording obviously . There must be a more recent reading of these poems. It seems that I must fill in the star rating section before this can be submitted. I do this reluctantly
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- Jonathan
- 19-09-19
slightly batty but unfairly maligned collection
this version gets a lot of flak from Audible reviews but for me it is strangely engaging. Yeats himself has often been criticized for his stylized and over the top renditions. I find them hauntingly atmospheric . Cyril Cusack and Siobhan McKenna are real masters of delivery giving Yeat's poems the full dramatic "welly" they deserve. There is a quaint inclusion of the Rose Tree by that early Abbey actor, whose name I can't recall.
its never fully clear why the second set of poems are repeated so you hear every poem twice.
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- AMN
- 13-05-17
Avoid
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Sadly failed to listen to the sample, trusting inadvisedly that it would be a decent version being on sale on Audible for 6.95. This is a very poor collection, bad sound quality and rambling. Not worth the money. Sadly I can't return as I am no longer a member. It's also a more realistic 2.95 on iTunes. Frustrating!
Would you ever listen to anything by William Butler Yeats again?
Yes but unlikely to purchase from Audible.
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of William Butler Yeats and Siobhan McKenna ?
Tomas Mac Eoin or any number of poet/singers.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Yeats' poetry is astonishingly beautiful (enough to capture the imagination of my young daughter) so yes, but the recording itself doesn't encourage anyone to listen to it unfortunately.
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- Patricia
- 23-08-11
Blurry
It should have been inspiring to hear both Yeats and McKenna doing these readings, but the sound quality was terrible. Find another version.
10 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Stephen Koritta
- 19-04-18
Nice production. but there are duplicate tracks
Archival recordings held up well. I enjoyed the recitations. I can't say I appreciated having each read twice. At first, I thought they were alternate readings but the times were exactly the same. Did a lot of fastforwarding. Other than that, I liked it very much.
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- Crystal Warren
- 31-08-20
Good but with frustrations
The poetry is lovely and hearing it read with Irish accents a treat. These are clearly archival recordings so the sound quality is not brilliant in some of them, but that is balanced out by skill of the readings, and knowing that in many cases you are hearing the author reading.
What is frustrating is that the titles are not given. It is fine with the very well known poems, but for most I didn't know which poem it actually was.
There are also a lot of repetitions. Having to keep skipping the second poem is annoying as I usually listen while doing other things or walking. It also makes the length of the book deceptive.
But despite those frustrations it was a good listen.
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- Tom
- 06-04-20
A glorious listen.
How wonderful an experience to spend a couple of hours feeling the passion that burned within an old man’s mind and heart.
Daybreak and a candle-end.
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- inwitinthemidwest
- 29-11-22
one of the poets I talk to the most
Yeats wasn't easy or relatable to me as a young college woman learning about the early modernist poets whose work followed his, who owed so much to him really, and whose poetry was "trendier," to put it crassly. But over the years Yeats has grown deeply significant to me. He defers to Place, to Nature, to all the old stories, and to Woman (My appreciation of him didn't lessen !! when I discovered that our mother was a descendant of Bree emigrants from Sligo). And Yeats' recorded voice is in this edition, in the form of two recordings: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" has been beautifully remastered; and I hadn't yet heard him performing"The Fiddler of Dooney." All the other readers are excellent--I can guess at a few in the mix--and I do wish they all might have been credited here by name. Listen to this book. It's that troll under the mountain with his pot of rocks and gold.