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''In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age'' is a volume of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1903 by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, the first edited by this publishing house.〔(DUN EMER & CUALA PRESS. University of Florida, Rare Books Collection ), viewed on July 8, 2013〕 Dun Emer published two editions of the book in 1903. The more expensive collection was published on Dutch and Irish paper and is bound with a vellum cover with Irish linen ties (see image). This is the first book of Yeats's "middle period," in which he eschewed his previous Romantic ideals and preference for pre-Raphaelite imagery, in favor of a more spare style and an anti-romantic poetic stance similar to that of Walter Savage Landor. The poem "Adam's Curse", however, continues to reflect the old ideals. This is also the most popular and frequently anthologized of the poems from this volume. The volume includes the playwright "On Baile's Strand: A Play". == "In The Seven Woods" == This is the opening poem of the book: :''I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods'' :''Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees'' :''Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away'' :''The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness'' :''That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile'' :''Tara uprooted, and new commonness'' :''Upon the throne and crying about the streets'' :''And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,'' :''Because it is alone of all things happy.'' :''I am contented, for I know that Quiet'' :''Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart'' :''Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,'' :''Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs'' :''A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.'' :''August, 1902''.〔(''In The Seven Woods'' ), viewed on July 8, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In the Seven Woods」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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