“When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

William Butler Yeats, photographed in 1933 by Pirie MacDonald (Library of Congress)
William Butler Yeats, photographed in 1933 by Pirie MacDonald (Library of Congress)

Amanda Holmes reads W. B. Yeats’s poem “When You Are Old.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

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Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a columnist and poetry editor for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

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