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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.

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Editorial reviews

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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The Naxos series is great. Clear readings of a nice selection of Yeats’ poems. Some listeners may also enjoy the biographical information included. I did find it interesting and helpful to understanding the poems, but I generally preferred that the other titles in this series simply stuck to the poetry.

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