The Poetry of W. B. Yeats Audiobook (Unabridged)

" You don't have to believe in Yeats's peculiar metaphysics to love his poetry. At his best, he is clear, direct, and entirely understandable. And when he does lapse into the opaque, the sound of his language is so transcendent that you can well allow the meaning to slip a little. My three-poet desert island library has room for Willy, right alongside Chaucer and Shakespeare. What a blessing for the English-speaking world that Yeats's nationalist fervor never took him to the point of writing Irish! "

" I always keep a copy of this in my car. I love Yeat's poetry. "

" One of the greatest poets to ever live! And Irish to boot:) "

" A fantastic collection of poems by one of my favorite poets. "

" Yeats is awesome. My favorite volume is Last Poems, which I still love very much despite having to pore over it with a microscope for a class presentation I recently gave in grad school. Reading Yeats makes me want to start pretending to write poetry again, and it also confirms my suspicion that most of the best poetry criticism can be found in great poetry, not critical essays. "

" I felt this might deserve closer to 3 1/2 stars. As with Frost, but a little better in my opinion, Yeats has a lot of neat imagery, but only a few poems really stand out. Yet, the few that do would be among my favorites. "

" Yeats' prose and poetry are beautiful. It is difficult for me to analyze them, or to deconstruct the language...they are too perfect together....his words flowing from the page to the heart. "

" I know Yeats is considered a Master of poetry...but I have a difficult time getting into his work. "

" Och, just gorgeous. "

" I love me some Yeats! ; ) "

" If I ever get a tattoo, I guarantee that it will be part of a W.B Yeats poem. Just because. "

" "the night and the light and the half-light" *swoon* "

" Yeats was THE poet of his generation. Read this to know why. His poems are beautiful, timeless and important. "

" So rating this seems silly and presumptuous, but there it is. "

" You really can't beat Yeats. A must for every poetry lover's shelf. "

" Essential to understanding not only the Irish but all humanity...The greatest poet of all time hands down. "

" "There was a man whom sorrow named his friend..." "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold..." "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born..." "For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand..." "

" Read some in college, more on the trip around Ireland with Sandy, and more ever since. "

" Fave poet. Hands Down. "

" One of my favorite poets "

" Reading Yeats is like playing Russian roulette with your emotions. "

" So many favorite poems -- too many to name. What a passionate man; what a master of language. "

" Yeats moves in my thoughts and in my life everyday. I have two battered collections of his poems, the first given me by a now dead friend. Who else has such music, or such passion? "

" Most of the poems in this collection are aesthetically simplistic (excluding the ones about gyres!) which is quite a nice contrast with Ezra Pound and TS Eliot. Yet, nonetheless, this poetry is as genuine and heartfelt as you can get. A must-read for all fans of excellent poetry. "

" Love! Death! Violence! Beauty! History! Bliss! Bitterness! Nature! Romanticism! Theosophy! The Irish! Gyres! All in a single poem's work for ol' W.B. "

" My favorite Yeats poem is "For Anne Gregory." A lot of the poems he wrote were about faeries and war and love, etc. I was glad I read it, and it is great to have it around for a reference, even if he is not my favorite poet. "

" The beauty of Yeats poetry goes without saying, as does his impact on my view of poetry as a genre. "

" IF I COULD KEEP ONLY ONE BOOK OF POETRY WRITTEN IN THE 20TH CENTURY, THIS WOULD BE IT. "

" One of my favourite books of Irish poetry ever...even if one of my cats chewed one of the corners of the hardback years ago! "

" Wonderful to read in chronological order to see his progression of writing styles and subjects. I like his early and very late stuff best rather than the middle crazy ramblings. "

" I felt this might deserve closer to 3 1/2 stars. As with Frost, but a little better in my opinion, Yeats has a lot of neat imagery, but only a few poems really stand out. Yet, the few that do would be among my favorites. "

" Yeats just didn't resonate with me. When I read this a number of years ago, it was something of a slog for me. "

" Collectively, I enjoy reading poems written by Yeats because the topics of his poems are flexible and diverse, ranging from politics, to love, and nature. As a writer, being able to write on several topics and touch on many genres is very important, so I find Yeats to be a great influence. "

" "Hearing him groan and stretch The doll-maker's wife is aware Her husband has heard the wretch, And crouched by the arm of his chair, She murmurs into his ear Head upon shoulder leant: 'My dear, my dear, O dear, It was an accident.' " "

" was I supposed to learn anythin'? "

" Beautiful. I regularly return to this collection and reread them at random, out loud, to savor the language - a sign of poetry done right. "

" I'm unable to say how I feel about Yeats' poetry because it puts me in another world - which is to say a world that isn't this world. When I read it, everything is as beautiful as his language. "

" I always keep a copy of this in my car. I love Yeat's poetry. "

" Tread softly because you tread on my dreams <3 Love love love love love all of Yeats' work. "