The Tower

W B Yeats

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Penguin
30 October 2017

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry

A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets

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.

By: W B Yeats
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 187mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9780241303092
ISBN 10: 0241303095
Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 30 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.