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In The Seven Woods (annotated)

In The Seven Woods (annotated)

Yeats, William Butler

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1519187793
ISBN13: 9781519187796
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 9 2015
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age is a volume of Irish poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1903 by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, the first edited by this publishing house. Dun Emer published two editions of the book in 1903. The more expensive collection was published on Dutch and Irish paper and is bound with a vellum cover with Irish linen ties (see image). This is the first book of Yeats's middle period, in which he eschewed his previous Romantic ideals and preference for pre-Raphaelite imagery, in favor of a more spare style and an anti-romantic poetic stance similar to that of Walter Savage Landor. The poem Adam's Curse, however, continues to reflect the old ideals. This is also the most popular and frequently anthologized of the poems from this volume. In The Seven Woods: I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees Hum in the lime tree flowers; and put away The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness Upon the throne and crying about the streets And hanging its paper flowers from post to post, Because it is alone of all things happy. Contents: In the Seven WoodsThe Old Age of Queen MaeveBaile and AilinnThe ArrowThe Folly of Being ComfortedThe Withering of the BoughsAdam's CurseThe Song of Red HanrahanThe Old Men Admiring Themselves in the WaterUnder the MoonThe Players Ask for a Blessing in the Psalteries and ThemselvesThe Rider From the NorthComment by YeatsOn Baile's Strand: A PlayAdvertisements (in the cheaper version)

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