Poet

W.B. Yeats

1865-1939

Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865 to John Butler Yeats, an Anglo-Irish solicitor and later artist, and to Susan Pollexfen, whose shipbuilding family came from Sligo. His brother was celebrated painter Jack Yeats, and his sisters, Lily and Lolly, founded Cuala Press.

Yeats was educated in Ireland and England, studying art in Dublin before deciding on poetry. In 1889, just after the publication of The Wanderings of Oisin, his unreciprocated, lifelong obsession with Maude Gonne began and inspired some of the greatest love poetry ever written.
In Irish literature Yeats resembles a tidal wave. In 1904, he set up the National Theatre of Ireland, the Abbey Theatre, with Lady Gregory, with financial support from Annie Horniman. He also had a genius for spotting genius in others, he produced JM Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars. The Abbey audience rioted. Yeats fought back.

In 1923, Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, he chose as his subject not poetry, but the Irish dramatic movement. ‘I would not be here were I not the symbol of that movement. When we thought of the plays we would like to perform we thought of what was romantic and poetical, for the nationalism we had called up – like that every generation had called up in moments of discouragement – was romantic and poetical.’

In his fifties Yeats married Georgie Hyde-Lees, with whom he had two adored children, Anne and Michael.

He did what no poet had ever done before: he wrote some of his greatest work in his sixties and seventies.

Yeats is buried in the Sligo he loved, beneath ‘bare Ben Bulben’s head’. His epitaph reads, as he requested:
‘Cast a cold eye/
On life, on death./
Horseman, pass by.’

Poems

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Josephine Hart: 'The Poetry Of W.B. Yeats'
W.B. Yeats: 'O Do Not Love Too Long' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'O Do Not Love Too Long' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'Meru' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Meru' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'Meru' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Politics' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Politics' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Jeremy Irons
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should not Old Men be Mad' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should not Old Men be Mad' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should Not Old Men be Mad' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should not Old Men be Mad' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' narrated by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'For Anne Gregory' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'For Anne Gregory' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stare's Nest by My Window' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'A Coat' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Girl's Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Girl's Song' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Song' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'A Song' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Anxiety' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Statues' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Crazy Jane and Jack The Journeyman' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Down By The Salley Gardens' read by Marianne Faithfull
W.B. Yeats: 'Down By the Salley Gardens' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Down By The Salley Gardens' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Dream' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Before The World Was Made' read by Ruth Negga
W.B. Yeats: 'Before The World Was Made' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Before The World Was Made' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Seamus Heaney
'W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Evanna Lynch
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Ashley Zhangazha
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Rupert Evans
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Robert Hardy
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Max Irons
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Rupert Evans
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Rupert Evans
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Jeremy Irons
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Gavin Drea
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing To Byzantium' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Ruth Negga
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All The Heart' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Prayer For Old Age' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Circus Animal's Desertion' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'The Circus Animal's Desertion' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Circus Animal's Desertion' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host Of The Air' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Under Ben Bulben' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Under Ben Bulben' read by Sinéad Cusack, Rupert Graves, and Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity Of Love' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity of Love' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity of Love' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity of Love' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Mariella Frostrup
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Grey Gowrie
Select reading
Josephine Hart: 'The Poetry Of W.B. Yeats'
W.B. Yeats: 'O Do Not Love Too Long' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'O Do Not Love Too Long' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'Meru' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Meru' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'Meru' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Politics' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Politics' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Jeremy Irons
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should not Old Men be Mad' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should not Old Men be Mad' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should Not Old Men be Mad' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should not Old Men be Mad' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' narrated by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'For Anne Gregory' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'For Anne Gregory' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stare's Nest by My Window' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'A Coat' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Girl's Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Girl's Song' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Friends' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Song' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'A Song' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Anxiety' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Statues' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Crazy Jane and Jack The Journeyman' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Down By The Salley Gardens' read by Marianne Faithfull
W.B. Yeats: 'Down By the Salley Gardens' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Down By The Salley Gardens' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Dream' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Before The World Was Made' read by Ruth Negga
W.B. Yeats: 'Before The World Was Made' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Before The World Was Made' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Seamus Heaney
'W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Evanna Lynch
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Ashley Zhangazha
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Rupert Evans
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Robert Hardy
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Max Irons
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Rupert Evans
W.B. Yeats: 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' read by Rupert Evans
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Jeremy Irons
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Folly of Being Comforted' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Gavin Drea
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing To Byzantium' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Ruth Negga
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All The Heart' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'A Prayer For Old Age' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Circus Animal's Desertion' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'The Circus Animal's Desertion' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Circus Animal's Desertion' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'No Second Troy' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host Of The Air' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Simon Callow
W.B. Yeats: 'The Host of The Air' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Under Ben Bulben' read by Grey Gowrie
W.B. Yeats: 'Under Ben Bulben' read by Sinéad Cusack, Rupert Graves, and Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity Of Love' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity of Love' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity of Love' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'The Pity of Love' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Mariella Frostrup
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Lisa Dwan
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Grey Gowrie
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