In the Seven Woods

by William Butler Yeats

14 chapters18mEnglish1904

About this book

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)

Chapters (14)

101 - In the Seven Woods

202 - The Arrow

303 - The Folly of Being Comforted

404 - Old Memory

505 - Never Give All the Heart

606 - The Withering of the Boughs

121

707 - Adam's Curse

142

808 - Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland

909 - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

1010 - Under the Moon

104

1111 - The Ragged Wood

1212 - O Do Not Love Too Long

1313 - The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves

1414 - The Happy Townland

157

In the Seven Woods

About this book

Chapters (14)

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