Track | Title | Reader | Length |
1 | 01 - The Hosting of the Sidhe | Justin Brett | 1:19 |
2 | 02 - The Everlasting Voices | Savannah | 0:57 |
3 | 03 - The Moods | Savannah | 0:41 |
4 | 04 - Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart | Martin Geeson | 1:34 |
5 | 05 - The Host of the Air | Simon Smoke | 3:10 |
6 | 06 - Breasal the Fisherman | sdaeley17 | 0:46 |
7 | 07 - A Cradle Song | Herman Roskams | 1:52 |
8 | 08 - Into the Twilight | Kasper | 1:15 |
9 | 09 - The Song of Wandering Aengus | Ezwa | 2:47 |
10 | 10 - The Song of the old Mother | Ezwa | 1:46 |
11 | 11 - The Fiddler of Dooney | Halle Kill | 1:09 |
12 | 12 - The Heart of the Woman | Ezwa | 0:59 |
13 | 13 - Aedh Laments the Loss of Love | Martin Geeson | 0:58 |
14 | 14 - Mongan laments the Chang that has come upon him and his Beloved | Eric Domke | 1:13 |
15 | 15 - Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace | Simon Smoke | 1:27 |
16 | 16 - Hanrahan reproves the Curlew | alanmapstone | 0:57 |
17 | 17 - Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty | Malone | 1:53 |
18 | 18 - A Poet to his Beloved | Kasper | 0:46 |
19 | 19 - Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes | sdaeley17 | 1:00 |
20 | 20 - To my Heart bidding it have no fear | Ezwa | 0:52 |
21 | 21 - The Cap and Bells | Diana Majlinger | 1:53 |
22 | 22 - The Valley of the Black Pig | Maureen | 0:53 |
23 | 23 - Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many moods | Jeremy Robertson | 1:30 |
24 | 24 - Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers | sdaeley17 | 0:58 |
25 | 25 - Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty | Martin Geeson | 1:11 |
26 | 26 - Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge | sdaeley17 | 0:47 |
27 | 27 - Aedh thinks of those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved | Martin Geeson | 1:02 |
28 | 28 - The Blessed | Maureen | 1:56 |
29 | 29 - The Secret Rose | Herman Roskams | 3:05 |
30 | 30 - Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings | sdaeley17 | 0:49 |
31 | 31 - The Travail of Passion | konstantin | 1:29 |
32 | 32 - The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends | Anastasiia Solokha | 0:54 |
33 | 33 - Hanrahan speaks to the Lovers of his Songs in coming Days | sdaeley17 | 0:58 |
34 | 34 - Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers | sdaeley17 | 1:13 |
35 | 35 - Aedh wishes his Beloved were deadd | Savannah | 1:01 |
36 | 36 - Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | Martin Geeson | 1:05 |
37 | 37 - Mongan thinks of his past Great |
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Artwork
Cover: Wind-blown reeds, 1909, by István Bosznay
Cover inset: Cover of the first edition of The Wind Among The Reeds, 1899, designed by Althea Gyles. Photo 2015 by Camboxer.
Cover inset: Portrait of W. B. Yeats by his father John Butler Yeats, November, 1896
Insert background: Reeds and trees, by ExpressoAddict, March 22, 2009
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Critics often divide the work of W. B. Yeats into three periods. His return to Ireland in 1896 marked a major transition to his second period, characterized by a strong interest in Irish legends and myths. The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) was written at the peak of this period and is considered a watershed. Richard Ellman wrote that Yeats “set the tone for the modern movement” with this volume of 37 poems that Yeats described as “a book of short lyrics and personal”. Taken together the poems tell a tale of quest and loss, and feature a variety of personae: Aedh, a figure derived from from Aodh, a Celtic god of death; Michael Robartes; Red Hanrahan; and Mongan, a figure from Celtic literature. Scholar Virginia Hyde writes that the poems “sound keynotes of painful desire, world-weariness, and apocalyptic fantasy... In Yeats's iconography, the reeds represent all perishable mortal things while the wind signifies the uncanny immortal powers buffeting them and interacting with them; wind also suggests to Yeats the "vague desires" of humans who are forever unsatisfied by the transient and palpable. ” Many are intense love poems, and can be seen as a quasi-biographical story of Yeats' unrequited passion for revolutionary Maud Gonne. Stylistically the poems are, in Yeats' words, “curiously elaborate”, and range from simple ballads to stately verse, lush in diction, with echoes of Spenser, Blake and Shelley. The volume closes with notes on the characters and subjects.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0701236970098 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550991665 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) |
Year | 1899 |
Recording | |
Read by | Multiple readers |
Length | 1 hour and 32 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Wind Among the Reeds
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Product Code: DB-1290
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