The Tower - Penguin Clothbound Poetry
The Tower - Penguin Clothbound Poetry
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24 August, 2017
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The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower includes some of his greatest and most innovative poems including 'Sailing to Byzantium', a lyrical meditation on man's disillusionment with the physical world; 'Leda and the Swan', a violent and graphic take on the Greek myth of Leda and Zeus and 'Among School Children', a poetic contemplation of life, love and the creative process.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241303092 |
| ISBN10 | 0241303095 |
| Number Of Pages | 80 |
| Item Weight | 141 g |
| Product Dimensions | 116 x 189 x 11 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
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W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the greatest and most innovative poets of the twentieth century, and a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.