In the Seven Woods by YEATS, William Butler

In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeatss 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, Yeatss great love and muse, to John MacBride. (Summary by Kasper Nijsen)