The Tower

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The Tower is a 1928 poetry collection by W.B. Yeats that reflects his mature style, blending Irish myth, personal reflection, and meditations on aging and artistic legacy.

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The Tower canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
associatedWith Thoor Ballylee
author W.B. Yeats
surface form: W. B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats
surface form: William Butler Yeats
containsPoem A Prayer for My Daughter
All Souls’ Day
surface form: All Souls’ Night

Among School Children
Leda and the Swan
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
Sailing to Byzantium
The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool
The New Faces
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
surface form: The Tower (poem)

The Wheel
countryOfOrigin Ireland
criticalReception highly acclaimed
followedBy The Winding Stair and Other Poems
follows The Wild Swans at Coole
genre poetry
hasForm lyric poetry
meditative poetry
hasPart sequence of poems
includedIn Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
influencedBy Byzantine art and culture
Irish Civil War
Yeats’s interest in the occult
language English
literaryPeriod Modernism
mediaType print
notableFor mature style of W. B. Yeats
meditations on aging
reflection on artistic legacy
use of Irish myth and legend
partOf late poetry of W. B. Yeats
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1928
publisher Macmillan Publishers
surface form: Macmillan

Macmillan and Co.
settingReferenced Thoor Ballylee
theme Irish history
aging
art and immortality
mortality
myth and symbolism
political violence
timePeriodAddressed early 20th century Ireland

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W.B. Yeats notableWork The Tower
The Tower by Richard Martin Stern hasWorkTitle The Tower
subject surface form: The Tower
Sailing to Byzantium collection The Tower