Read-along
The Winding Stair
From the twilight to the tower.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 13 June
- Length
- Length 16 days
Sixteen poems by W.B. Yeats, one a day for sixteen days, arced from the Celtic twilight of the 1890s through the political fury of the 1910s to the cold, magnificent late work. He spent fifty years revising himself. This is the essential arc: the dreamer, then the man, then the tower.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
Day by day
- Day 1. The Lake Isle of InnisfreeW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 2. When You Are OldW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 3. The Song of Wandering AengusW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 4. The Cap and BellsW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 5. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 6. September 1913W.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 7. To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to NothingW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 8. The Cold HeavenW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 9. The MagiW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 10. The Wild Swans at CooleW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 11. An Irish Airman Foresees His DeathW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 12. The ScholarsW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 13. The FishermanW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 14. Lines Written in DejectionW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 15. The Second ComingW.B. Yeats, 1 min
- Day 16. Sailing to ByzantiumW.B. Yeats, 1 min