In the Seven Woods

Author: William Butler Yeats

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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 decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride. (Summary by Kasper Nijsen)

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01 - In the Seven Woods02 - The Arrow03 - The Folly of Being Comforted04 - Old Memory05 - Never Give All the Heart06 - The Withering of the Boughs07 - Adam's Curse08 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland09 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water10 - Under the Moon11 - The Ragged Wood12 - O Do Not Love Too Long13 - The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves14 - The Happy Townland

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