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Subject: The Poetry of William Butler Yeats

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Suky

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Date Posted: 09:44:12 11/17/01 Sat

Was anyone else as bothered as I was that the Poetry of William Butler Yeats tape didn't have a printed listing of all the poems on it (or identify who reads which one)? Well, I enjoyed the poems so much that I wrote down all the titles for myself and thought I'd share the list here for the benefit of everyone. But I'll post it as a reply to this to avoid taking up a lot of space here ... There are 83 poems on it! (No, I'm not *that* much of a nerd that I counted them all; my word processor did it for me!) What's really cool is that DW does 12 of them, and there are eight actors on the tape, so he gets slightly more than his share! :-) I've tried to figure out which performer reads each of other the other poems as well, but I'm not familiar enough with their voices to tell them apart in all cases--especially the women. The only one I'm familiar with is Minnie Driver.

BTW, if you're into Yeats, here's a site that has the texts of all his poems (some of the titles are slightly different from the tape):

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5379/yeats_bytitle.html

If you're a fan of Irish/Celtic mythology (you know who you are!), you should definitely check him out.

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Suky
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Date Posted: 10:03:54 11/17/01 Sat

The Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Performed by Stephanie Beacham, Gabriel Byrne, Minnie Driver, Samantha Eggar, Colm Meaney, Roger Rees, Julian Sands, and David Warner

(A ? means I'm not totally sure of the performer--does anyone else know them?--the ones by DW are in bold--assuming I get the HTML right!)

Side A

The Stolen Child (Gabriel Byrne?)
The Song of the Happy Shepherd (Roger Rees)
The Sad Shepherd (David Warner)
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes (?)
The Indian Upon God (Julian Sands?)
The Indian to His Love (?)
The Madness of King Goll (Colm Meaney)
Running to Paradise (Minnie Driver)
Ephemera (Julian Sands?)
To an Isle in the Water (Gabriel Byrne?)
The Falling of the Leaves (?)
Down by the Salley Gardens (Gabriel Byrne?)
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman (Colm Meaney)
The Ballad of Moll Magee (Minnie Driver?)
To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time (Colm Meaney)
The Rose of the World (Minnie Driver?)
The Rose of Peace (Julian Sands?)
The Rose of Battle (David Warner)
A Faery Song (Gabriel Byrne)
A Dream of Death (David Warner)
The Lake Isle of Inisfree (Gabriel Byrne)
The Everlasting Voices (?)
A Cradle Song (Gabriel Byrne)
A Secret Rose (Roger Rees)
The Pity of Love (Gabriel Byrne)
The Sorrow of Love (Gabriel Byrne?)
The White Bird (Minnie Driver)
Let the Night Come (?)
A Dream of a Blessed Spirit (Roger Rees)
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland (Colm Meaney)
The Ballad of Father Gilligan (Gabriel Byrne)
The Two Trees (?)
To Some I Have Talked With by the Fire (Colm Meaney)

Side B

To Ireland in the Coming Times (Minnie Driver)
His Dream (David Warner)
The Moods (Roger Rees)
He Tells of the Rose in His Heart (Colm Meaney)
The Host of the Air (Julian Sands)
A Cradle Song (Minnie Driver)
The Song of Wandering Aengus (Gabriel Byrne)
The Song of the Old Mother (?)
The Fiddler of Dooney (Colm Meaney)
The Heart of the Woman (?)
He Laments the Loss of Love (Roger Rees)
Michael Robartes Bids His Lover Be at Peace (Colm Meaney)
Hanrahan Reproves the Curlew (Julian Sands)
A Poet to His Beloved (Roger Rees)
To My Heart Bidding it Have No Fear (Julian Sands)
The Cap and Bells (David Warner)
The Valley of the Black Pig (Minnie Driver)
He Hears the Cry of the Sedge (Roger Rees)
The Travail of Passion (?)
The Poet Pleads With His Friend for Old Friends (Julian Sands)
He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead (Colm Meaney)
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (Gabriel Byrne)
In the Seven Woods (Minnie Driver)
The Arrow (Roger Rees)
The Folly of Being Comforted (David Warner)
Adam's Curse (Julian Sands)
The Song of Red Hoolihan (Gabriel Byrne)
The Old MenAdmiring Themselves in the Water (?)
No Second Troy (David Warner)
A Lyric From an Unpublished Play (?)
Reconciliation (David Warner)
A Drinking Song (Roger Rees)
The Coming of Wisdom With Time (Colm Meaney)
Upon a Threatened House (?)
These Are the Clouds (Minnie Driver)
At Galway Races (Colm Meaney)
A Friend's Illness (David Warner)
The Young Man's Song (Colm Meaney)
The Three Hermits (David Warner)
The Player Queen: Song From an Unfinished Play (Minnie Driver)
The Witch and the Peacock (?)
The Mountain Tomb (Minnie Driver)
To A Child Dancing in the Wind (Gabriel Byrne)
A Memory of Youth (David Warner)
Fallen Majesty (Minnie Driver)
Friends (Colm Meaney)
The Cold Heaven (Minnie Driver)
The Magi/The Dolls (?)
A Coat (David Warner)
When You Are Old (Gabriel Byrne)