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    Great Poets, The: W.B. Yeats
    Great Poets, The: W.B. Yeats
    Great Poets, The: W.B. Yeats
    Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

    Great Poets, The: W.B. Yeats

    Written by William Butler Yeats

    Narrated by Jim Norton, Denys Hawthorne, Marcella Riordan and Nicholas Boulton

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    About this audiobook

    Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a collection of their most popular poems – with W. B. Yeats, one of the most loved poets of the twentieth 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.

    ©2007 Naxos Rights International; (P)2007 Naxos Rights International

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateDec 1, 2007
    ISBN9789629546786
    Great Poets, The: W.B. Yeats
    Author

    William Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

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      This is a very well-narrated collection of thirty-two of Yeat's best works.

      The collection spans his fifty year long career as a poet with several of the poems proceeded by a short, informative commentary that helps to place the poem into context.

      My only criticism of this particular collection is that it doesn't include my favourite Yeat's poem - The Stolen Child.

      You can view the track listings via the Naxos AudioBooks website.