AUDIO CASSETTE
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'Davidson's pithy introduction to these poems equally encapsulates the quality of his own reading, which is vibrant, definite and exploratory like a snake's tongue.
The listener is awakened and ambushed into deeper meanings, startled into surprising insights. Davidson reads perceptively, enriching our understanding, and breathing new life into the Yeatsian corpus. (And is not every poem on a printed page dead until kissed into new life by a living voice?)
This is an interpretation, which, to quote Yeats, appeals to "the whole man, blood, imagination, intellect, running together"'
Maurice Flanagan - The Yeats Society |
Leda and The Swan - The Lake Isle of Innisfree - A Cradle Song - The White Birds - The Song of the Happy Shepherd - The Sad Shepherd - The Indian Upon God - The Indian to His Love - Ephemera - The Stolen Child - The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner - The Ballad of Father Gilligan - To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire - To Ireland in the Coming Times
The Gyres - Lapis Lazuli - Sweet Dancer - The Three Bushes - The Lady's First, Second, Third Song - An Acre of Grass - Beautiful Lofty Things - A Crazed Girl - The Curse of Cromwell - Roger Casement - The Ghost of Roger Casement - The O'Rahilly
Long Legged Fly - A Bronze Head - John Kinsell's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore - Hound Voice - High Talk - Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad - The Statesman's Holiday - The Circus Animals - Desertion - Sailing to Byzantium - Byzantium
Easter 1916 - from Oedipus at Colonus - The Magi - The Second Coming
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