William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats - Dolls

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 literary establishments, his earliest volume of verse was published in 1889,...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 11 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Deep-Sworn Vow

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

Algy Pug and 12 more 8 minutes

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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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William Butler Yeats - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Juliet Brown and 17 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)

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 Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his...

Peter Tucker 1 hour 11 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Butler Yeats - Celtic Twilight

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my...

Shakira Searle and 19 more 4 hours 10 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Wind Among the Reeds

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 an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. One of his...

Justin Brett and 19 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - John Sherman and Dhoya

In 1891, Yeats published «John Sherman», a novella, and «Dhoya», a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing...

David Wales 2 hours 49 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - In the Seven Woods

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...

Kasper 18 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Wild Swans at Coole

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 collection. The Wild Swans at Coole is in the «middle stage» of Yeats' writing...

Nicole Lee 1 hour 1 minute

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William Butler Yeats - Crossways

The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High...

Kasper 37 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Fiddler of Dooney

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 4th 2011 William Butler Yeats was a notable Irish poet and playwright....

Bob Gonzalez and 16 more 19 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Drinking Song

LibriVox volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of A Drinking Song from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912) by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 11th, 2010....

Algy Pug and 9 more 7 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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