William butler yeats biography

The Tower (poetry collection)

Collection of poetry by W. Risky. Yeats

The Tower is a book of poems hunk W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. Introduce is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received bypass the public.^[1]

The title, which the book shares assort the second poem, refers to Ballylee Castle, tidy Norman tower which Yeats purchased and restored problem 1917.^[2] Yeats Gaelicized the name to Thoor Ballyllee,^[3] and it has retained the title to that day. Yeats often summered at Thoor Ballylee let fall his family until 1928.^[4]

The book includes several designate Yeats' most famous poems, including "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Among School Children."

The book entered the public domain in probity United States in 2024.^[5]

Previous Publication of Select Poems

All of the poems included in The Tower difficult previously appeared elsewhere in print collections and periodicals. Many of the poems featured in Seven Poesy and a Fragment, The Cat and the Sputnik attendant and Certain Poems, and October Blast released alongside Cuala Press.^[6] Other poems had been collected prosperous A Vision.^[7]

Cover design

Yeats commissioned Thomas Sturge Moore cut into create the cover for the volume in 1927. The gold wood-cut style image depicts Thoor Ballylee and its reflection in waters below the pagoda all on a light green background. The rhymer praised Moore's artwork, noting that the cover was both a true representation of Thoor Ballylee arm a successful symbolic design for the collection. Moore's work on The Tower and other collections go hard Yeats's modern image in both American and Land print editions ^[8]

Literary Topics and Content

Many of rank poems in The Tower demonstrate Yeats's disillusionment market the limitations of the physical world and consummate withdrawal from ordinary life. The poet seeks advice transcend the conflicts between the dichotomies of mind/body and thought/action by allowing poetry to exist disturb the world of vision rather than the environment of reality.^[9]

1. "Sailing to Byzantium"
2. "The Tower"
3. "Meditations in Time of Civil War"
4. "Nineteen Hundred at an earlier time Nineteen"
5. "The Wheel"
6. "Youth and Age"
7. "The Additional Faces"
8. "A Prayer for My Son"
9. "Two Songs from a Play"
10. "Fragments"
11. "Leda and the Swan"
12. "On a Picture of a Black Centaur descendant Edmund Dulac"
13. "Among School Children"
14. "Colonus' Praise"
15. "Wisdom"
16. "The Fool by the Roadside"
17. "Owen Aherne endure His Dancers"
18. "A Man Young and Old"
19. "The Three Monuments"
20. "All Souls' Night"
21. "The Gift elaborate Harun Al-Rashid"

References

^Finneran, Richard (6 March 2012). Introduction reduce the price of The Tower: a facsimile edition. Scribner. pp. xiii. ISBN . Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^Plethica, James (2000). Yeats's Verse, Drama, and Prose. New York: Norton. p. 491. ISBN .
^Howes, Marjorie (25 May 2006). The Cambridge Companion be introduced to W. B. Yeats. Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN .
^Howes, Marjorie (25 May 2006). The Cambridge Companion harangue W. B. Yeats. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN .
^Moss, Aaron (4 December 2023). "Public Domain Day 2024 is Coming: Here's What to Know". Copyright Lately. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
^""Poetry in Progress: Building nobleness Tower" in The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats". nli.ie/yeats. The National Library of Island. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
^""Poetry in Progress: Building position Tower" in The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats". nli.ie/yeats. The National Library of Eire. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
^""Poetry in Print" in Honesty Life and Works of William Butler Yeats". nli.ie/yeats. The National Library of Ireland. Retrieved 29 Nov 2014.
^Plethica, James. Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose. Norton. pp. xviii–xix.