In The Seven Woods
by W. B. Yeats
- First published
- 1903
- Reading level
- Easy
- Price
- Free
About the book
"In The Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age" by W. B. Yeats is a poetry collection published in 1903. This volume marks Yeats's shift from Romantic ideals and pre-Raphaelite imagery toward a spare, anti-romantic style. Drawing on Irish heroic legends, the collection includes poems inspired by walks through the Seven Woods before a great wind transformed the landscape. The volume also features "Adam's Curse," which became its most popular and frequently anthologized piece, and concludes with the play "On Baile's Strand."
- Ireland
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #30652. In The Seven Woods on Wikipedia.
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