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by: William Butler Yeats
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 821
EAN: 9781598870398
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 1598870394
Label: Highbridge Audio
Manufacturer: Highbridge Audio
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 60
Publication Date: June 08, 2006
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Sales Rank: 564479
Studio: Highbridge Audio
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Product Description:
This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of his old age. Works of precision, economy and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree,' 'The Wild Swans at Coole,' 'Byzantium,' and 'Leda and the Swan.'
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Rating: - A Good Selection, Competently Done
This is a single cassette in one of those tall boxes that could hold two. The notes are sparse - just a listing of the poems and a capsule bio of Mr. McKenna. The package also claims 80 minutes worth of poetry, but the timings printed on the tape itself for each side (35:29 for side A, 34:04 for B) leave us more than 10 minutes shy of that. I myself have not done the requisite timing, but tend to believe the (spurious?) precision of the tape's numbers.
The readings are workmanlike, and ... Read More
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