The Tower (poetry collection)

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The Tower is a 1928 poetry collection by W. B. Yeats that gathers many of his major later poems, reflecting on aging, Irish politics, and mystical vision.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author W. B. Yeats
linked to: W.B. Yeats
containsPoem A Man Young and Old
A Prayer for My Daughter
Among School Children
Leda and the Swan
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
Sailing to Byzantium
The Cat and the Moon
The Fool by the Roadside
The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid
The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool
The New Faces
The Phases of the Moon
The Rose Tree
linked to: The Rose-Tree

The Three Bushes
The Three Hermits
The Three Monuments
The Three Songs to the One Burden
The Tower (poem)
The Wheel
countryOfOrigin Ireland
criticalReputation one of Yeats's most important collections
dedicatedTo Lady Gregory
firstEditionFormat print
followedBy The Winding Stair and Other Poems
genre lyric poetry
modernist poetry
hasForm verse
influencedBy Byzantine art and culture
Irish Civil War
Yeats's occult studies
language English
literaryPeriod Modernism
mainTheme Irish politics
aging
art and mortality
mysticism
personal memory
violence and history
notableFor exploration of old age and artistic transcendence
integration of personal, political, and mystical themes
originalAudience English-language poetry readers
partOf W. B. Yeats's late poetry
precededBy The Wild Swans at Coole (1919 collection)
publicationYear 1928
publisher Macmillan
reflectsAuthorLifePeriod Yeats's later years
settingElement Thoor Ballylee
titlePoem The Tower (poem)

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