William Butler Yeats Lot of 9 Fairy Tales & Poetry Audiobooks in 9 MP3 Audio CDs

Description: These discs contain MP3 files to play on your computer (PC or Mac) or compatible player. please check your devices documentation for compatibility. William Butler Yeats Lot of 9 Fairy Tales & Poetry Audiobooks in 9 MP3 Audio CDs William Butler Yeats(1865 - 1939) William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). Yeats was a very good friend of American expatriate poet and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra Pound. Yeats wrote the introduction for Gitanjali, which was about to be published by the India Society. Yeats was born and educated in Dublin, but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and those slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. The Celtic TwilightRead by Multiple ReadersRunning Time:04:10:47 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesMany of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin in the village of Ballisodare. He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories. He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination.Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. (W. B. Yeats) CrosswaysRead by Kasper NijsenRunning Time:0:37:31 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): PoetryThe first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a Nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems showcase his Celtic imagination, his love for Irish folk-tales, and his commitment to the Romantic ideal of love.The Song of the Happy ShepherdThe Sad ShepherdThe Cloak, The Boat and The ShoesAnashuya and VijayaThe Indian Upon GodThe Indian To His LoveThe Falling of the LeavesEphemeraThe Madness of King GollThe Stolen ChildTo an Isle in the WaterDown by the Salley GardensThe Meditation of the Old FishermanThe Ballad of John O'HartThe Ballad of Moll MageeThe Ballad of the Foxhunter Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish PeasantryRead by Multiple ReadersRunning Time:11:20:48 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesThis is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. IntroductionThe Trooping Fairies - The FairiesFrank Martin and The FairiesThe Priest's Supper - The Fairy Well of LagnanayTeig O'Kane and the CorpsePaddy Corcoran's Wife - Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of CongThe Fairy Thorn - The Legend of Knockgrafton - A Donegal FairyChangelings The Brewery of Egg-shells - The Fairy NurseJamie Freel and the Young Lady - The Stolen ChildThe Merrow The Soul CagesFlory Cantillon's FuneralThe Solitary Fairies -The Lepracaun, or, Fairy ShoemakerMaster and Man - Far Darrig in DonegalThe Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'RourkeThe Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the BansheeA Lamantation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald - The Banshee of the MacCarthysGhosts - A DreamGrace ConnerA Legend of TyroneThe Black Lamb - Song of the GhostThe Radiant Boy - The Fate of Frank M'KennaWitches, Fairy Doctors BewitchedBewitched Butter (Donegal) - A Queen's County WitchThe Witch Hare - Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)The Horned Women - The Witches ExcursionThe Confessions of Tom BourkeThe Pudding BewitchedTyeer-Na-N-Oge The Legend of O'DonoghueRent-Day - Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest - The Phantom IsleSaints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of ColoonyThe Story of the Little Bird - Conversion King Laoghaire's DaughtersKing O'Toole and His GooseThe Devil The Demon Cat - The Long Spoon - The Countess The Three Wishes Giants - The Giant's StairsA Legend of KnockmanyKings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers - The Twelve Wild GeeseThe Lazy Beauty and Her AuntsThe Haughty Princess - The Enchantment of Gearoidh IarlaMunachar and Manachar - Donald and his NeighboursThe JackdawThe Story of Conn-eda In the Seven WoodsRead by Kasper NijsenRunning Time:0:18:44 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): PoetryIn 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.J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time In the Seven WoodsThe ArrowThe Folly of Being ComfortedOld MemoryNever Give All the HeartThe Withering of the BoughsAdam's CurseRed Hanrahan's Song about IrelandThe Old Men Admiring Themselves in the WaterUnder the MoonThe Ragged WoodO Do Not Love Too LongThe Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on ThemselvesThe Happy Townland John Sherman and DhoyaRead by David WalesRunning Time:2:48:59 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): Single Author CollectionsIn 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing human women. The TowerRead by Multiple ReadersRunning Time:01:23:33 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): Single Author Collections, PoetryThe Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title refers to Ballylee Castle, an old Norman tower in the west of Ireland which Yeats purchased in 1917 and renovated for use as a summer residence and where he wrote much of his poetry. The book includes his well known poems Sailing to Byzantium and Leda and the Swan. Sailing to Byzantium The Tower Meditations in Time of Civil War Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen The Wheel Youth and Age The New Faces A Prayer for My Son Two Songs from a Play Wisdom Leda and the Swan On a Picture of a Black Centaur Among School Children Colonus' Praise The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool Owen Ahern and his Dancers A Man Young and Old The Three Monuments From 'Oedipus at Colonus' The Gift of Harun Al Rashid All Soul's Night The Wanderings of OisinRead by NathanRunning Time:0:51:33 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, NarrativesThis narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful Sidhe Niamh: together they traveled, feasted, and quested. At last Oison succumbs to the temptation to return and visit the lands of mortal men: inadvertently slipping from his faerie horse, his body touches the ground and instantly puts on the flesh of a decrepit old man. Oison describes various islands and what he did there: contrasting his noble deeds with the degenerate weakness of the present generation. The Wild Swans at CooleRead by Peter TuckerRunning Time:01:11:56 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): Single Author Collections, PoetryA collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his attachment to the supernatural and Irish folklore, and his recourse to alter egos (Aherne and Robartes). They also exemplify his distinctive style of expression. The Wild Swans at Coole In Memory of Major Robert Gregory An Irish Airman Foresees his Death Men Improve with the Years The Collarbone of a Hare Under the Round Tower Solomon to Sheba The Living Beauty A Song To a Young Beauty To a Young Girl The Scholars Tom O'Roughley The Sad Shepherd Lines Written in Dejection The Dawn On Woman The Fisherman The Hawk Memory Her Praise The People His Phoenix A Thought from Propertius Broken Dreams A Deep Sworn Vow Presences The Balloon of the Mind To a Squirrel at Kyle NaGno On Being Asked for a War Poem In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen Upon a Dying Lady Ego Dominus Tuus A Prayer on Going into my House The Phases of the Moon The Cat and the Moon The Saint and the Hunchback Two Songs of a Fool Another Song of a Fool The Double Vision of Michael Robartes The Wind Among the Reeds Read by NewgatenovelistRunning Time:00:48:17 in 1 MP3 Audio CDGenre(s): Single author, LyricThe Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal relationships.The Hosting of the SidheThe Everlasting VoicesThe MoodsThe Lover Tells of the Rose in his HeartThe Host of the AirThe FishermanA Cradle SongInto the TwilightThe Song of Wandering AengusThe Song of the Old MotherThe Heart of the WomanThe Lover Mourns for the Loss of LoveHe Mourns for the Change that has come upon Him and his Beloved and Longs for the End of the WorldHe Bids his Beloved be at PeaceHe Reproves the CurlewHe Remembers Forgotten BeautyA Poet to his BelovedHe gives his Beloved certain RhymesTo my Heart, Bidding it have no FearThe Cap and BellsThe Valley of the Black PigThe Lover ask Forgiveness Because of his Many MoodsHe Tells of a Valley full of LoversHe Tells of the Perfect BeautyHe Hears the Cry of the SedgeHe thinks of Those who have Spoken Evil of his BelovedThe BlessedThe Secret RoseMaid QuietThe Travail of PassionThe Lover Pleads with his Friend for Old FriendsA Lover Speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in Coming DaysThe Poet Pleads with the Elemental PowersHe Wishes his Beloved were DeadHe Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenHe Thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of HeavenThe Fiddler of Dooney Our Audiobooks are Complete and Unabridged (unless otherwise indicated) Our Audiobooks are always read by real people, never by computers.Please Note: These recorded readings are from the author's original works which are in the public domain. All recordings and artwork are in the public domain and there are no infringements or copyrights. Each track starts with "This is a LibriVox recording...."Although Librivox has graciously made these recordings available to the public domain, they are not associated with the sale of this product. Public domain books A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired or have been forfeited. In most countries the of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest copyright term is in Mexico, which has life plus 100 years for all deaths since July 1928. A notable exception is the United States, where every book and tale published before 1926 is in the public domain; American copyrights last for 95 years for books originally published between 1925 and 1978 if the copyright was properly registered and maintained.

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