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William Butler Yeats

1865 - 1939

POEMS

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  • The Second Coming
  • The Stare’s Nest by My Window
  • The Fascination of What’s Difficult
  • An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
  • The Wild Swans at Coole
  • The Song of Wandering Aengus
  • He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  • When You are Old
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Yeats – A Celebration

June 2015
In a podcast marking the 150th anniversary of Yeats' birth, the SPL invited a number of poets to read and reflect on their favourite Yeats poem.
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