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The Life & Works of W. B. Yeats
Written by William Butler Yeats
Narrated by Jim Norton, Denys Hawthorne, Marcella Riordan and Nicholas Boulton
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The Life of William Butler Yeats is a remarkable one – poet, playwright, essayist, politician, occultist, astrologer, founder of a national theatre, voluminous correspondent, lover, husband and father. It was a life that extended to a packed, sometimes frantic seventy-three years and left us with what many consider to be one of the finest collections of poetry from one voice.
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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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Spirits talked through Yeats' wife while she was in a trance-like state. Not for someone who is looking for a quick Astrology fix. How many voters know much, if anything, about Yeats' background in Magick, etc. That he shows up in one of Crowley's novels as the decidedly inferior poet Gates. That he and the Great Beast had 'psychic skirmishes. That he proposed to Maude Gonne several times and was turned down repeatedly. He even proposed to Gonne's daugter Iseult He became a randy old goat after a late start.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another gift from Naxos. This two-hour programme doesn't go into Yeats' life in depth but gives us a good feel for the man himself and is interspersed with excellent readings of some of his greatest and also some of his less well-known poems.