- In the Seven Woods
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In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride.
- Chapters
- In the Seven Woods
- The Arrow
- The Folly of Being Comforted
- Old Memory
- Never Give All the Heart
- The Withering of the Boughs
- Adam's Curse
- Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland
- The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
- Under the Moon
- The Ragged Wood
- O Do Not Love Too Long
- The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves
- The Happy Townland