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YEATS: Life and Works




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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,...

Disc 1


    The Life and Work of W.B. Yeats (more info)
    Composed by: John Kavanagh
    Jim Norton, reader
    Denys Hawthorne, reader
    Marcella Riordan, reader
    Nicholas Boulton, reader
    Produced by: Soames, Nicolas

  1. Down By The Salley Gardens - 2:40
  2. The Early History of the Yeats Family - 5:55
  3. Extract from The Wanderings of Oisin - 7:49
  4. The Early Poems and Sligo - 1:31
  5. The Stolen Child - 2:42
  6. Down By The Salley Gardens - 0:48
  7. A 'Man of Letters' - 3:48
  8. To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time - 3:01
  9. The Lake Isle of Inisfree - 1:20
  10. The Pity Of Love - 0:38
  11. The Sorrow OF Love - 0:47
  12. December 1891 - Yeats meets Maud Gonne - 1:03
  13. When You Are Old - 1:26
  14. A Dream Of Death - 0:45
  15. The Ballad Of Father Gilligan - 2:08
  16. The Fiddler Of Dooney - 1:19
  17. The 1890s - 1:13
  18. The Host Of The Air - 2:35
  19. The Song Of Wandering Aengus - 1:15
  20. 1896 - A love affair - 1:24
  21. The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love - 0:40
  22. The Cap And Bells - 1:37
  23. Lady Augusta Gregory - 0:58
  24. The Secret Rose - 2:28
  25. The Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven - 1:07
  26. Adam's Curse - 2:11
  27. The New Century - 2:57
  28. No Second Troy - 0:41
  29. Drama and a National Theatre for Ireland - 1:18
  30. To A Child Dancing In The Wind - 0:33
  31. The Cold Heaven - 0:52
  32. 1912 - The 'Great Lock Out' - 2:17
  33. Sep-13 - 2:07
  34. The Fisherman - 2:24
  35. The Wild Swans At Coole - 1:48
  36. Broken Dreams - 3:09
  37. Easter 1916 - 3:39
  38. The Rose Tree - 1:17
  39. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death - 1:22
  40. Men Improve With The Years - 1:14

Disc 2


    The Life and Work of W.B. Yeats (more info)
    Composed by: John Kavanagh
    Jim Norton, reader
    Denys Hawthorne, reader
    Marcella Riordan, reader
    Nicholas Boulton, reader
    Produced by: Soames, Nicolas

  1. Summer 1917 - Marriage - 7:50
  2. Solomon To Sheba - 1:21
  3. To A Young Beauty - 0:48
  4. Jan-19 - 1:41
  5. The Second Coming - 1:54
  6. A Prayer For My Daughter - 4:05
  7. The Years Following 1920 - 2:15
  8. Leda And The Swan - 0:55
  9. The Nobel Prize for Literature 1923 - 2:32
  10. Among Schoolchildren - 4:56
  11. Sailing To Byzantium - 2:53
  12. The Tower - 3:26
  13. In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz - 1:53
  14. A Dialogue Of Self And Soul - 4:19
  15. For Anne Gregory - 1:06
  16. At Algeciras - A Meditation Upon Death - 1:38
  17. The Choice - 0:44
  18. Mohini Chatterjee - 1:29
  19. Byzantium - 3:35
  20. Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman - 0:51
  21. Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop - 0:50
  22. Crazy Jane On God - 1:19
  23. After Long Silence - 0:37
  24. Her Vision In The Wood - 2:25
  25. A Prayer For Old Age - 1:16
  26. Sweet Dancer - 1:10
  27. Roger Casement - 1:35
  28. Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? - 1:48
  29. From Under Ben Bulbin - 2:09
  30. The Man And The Echo - 2:45
  31. 1938 - The Death of Olivia Shakespeare - 1:12
  32. The Circus Animals' Desertion - 2:51
  33. Politics - 0:29
  34. 1939 - Final Days in France - 1:12
  35. Cuchulain Comforted - 1:55
  36. Final Letter to Lady Elizabeth Pelham - 1:42

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Product Details
 
Composer(s):
Kavanagh, John

Artist(s):
Boulton, Nicholas; Hawthorne, Denys; Norton, Jim; Riordan, Marcella

Label: Naxos Audio Books
UPC: 730099026420
Item Number: NA226412
Release Date: Apr 1, 2002