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The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received by the public. [1] The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to ...
William Butler Yeats, William A. Scott Thoor Ballylee Castle ( Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí ) is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo , or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway , Ireland .
"The Tower" is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It is the second poem in The Tower , a 1928 collection of Yeats' poems. The poem features Yeats wrestling with his old age.
This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised.
Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival , and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre , serving as its chief during its early years.
The title is linked to the staircase in an old Norman tower in County Galway which Yeats bought and gave it the Gaelicized name Thoor Ballylee castle; Yeats would spend the summers there for about a decade, beginning in 1919. [2] He saw the castle as a vital connection to the aristocratic Irish past which he admired. This volume capitalizes on ...
The Tower (poetry collection), a book of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1928 "The Tower" (poem), by William Butler Yeats; The Tower (Stern novel), a novel by Richard Martin Stern, 1973, adapted into the film The Towering Inferno; The Tower (Wilson novel), a novel by Colin Wilson; La Tour, known in English as The Tower, the third ...