Read by Siobhan McKenna
Arranged and introduced by Peter Duval Smith
The idea of Crazy Jane was suggested to Yeats by a peasant woman in the West of Ireland who was an acquaintance of Lady Gregory's. She is the c.ntra] character in nine of the lyrics in the sequence Words for Music Perhaps, which was published by the Cuala Press in 1933. A similar impulse inspired certain other poems in this volume, as well as several of the poems in ' A Woman Young and Old ' (published as part of The Winding Stair in 1933) and in Last Poems (1939).