Yeats made these recordings for the wireless in 1932, 1934 and the last on 28 October 1937 when he was 72. He died on January 28 1939. The photograph shows him sitting before the microphone in 1937.
De la Mare, most magic of English poets 1873-1956. His novels are magic too, especially 'The Return'. He lives in the half world between dream and waking now called the unconscious and he fills it with intense mystery.
