Websites
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Check out Yeats's page on the Nobel Prize website.
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The homepage for Coole Park, which is now owned by the government.
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Here's another poem Yeats wrote about Coole Park.
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Here's another poem Yeats wrote about a swan.
Video
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Check out an actor portraying W.B. as he reads this poem.
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This reading of the poem shows some slides as well.
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This (brother and sister?) pair really walk the line in their reading of the poem.
Audio
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Here's the Librivox audio of the poem.
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Here's a (very old) recording of Yeats reading some poems.
Images
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Here's a famous picture of Yeats as a young man.
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Here's Yeats in his own old age.
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Here's a picture of Lady Gregory, once the owner of Coole Park.
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Check out the house where Lady Gregory lived, and Yeats stayed (now demolished).
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Wow. This is Yeats' manuscript version of the poem, and it looks a wee bit different. Be sure to click through to page 2
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Here's a tree at Coole Park, in which a number of writers, including Yeats, carved their initials (Yeats is next to the number 10).