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. She is the central character in nine of the lyrics in the sequence Words for Music Perhaps. 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) and in Last Poems.
(Recordings made in London and In the studios of Radio Eireann, Dublin)