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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| The Tower | 0 |
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| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsPoem |
A Man Young and Old
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A Prayer for My Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ Among School Children NERFINISHED ⓘ Leda and the Swan NERFINISHED ⓘ Meditations in Time of Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen NERFINISHED ⓘ Sailing to Byzantium NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cat and the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fool by the Roadside NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ The Phases of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rose Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Bushes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Hermits NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Monuments NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Songs to the One Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tower (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wheel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| criticalReputation | one of Yeats's most important collections ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Lady Gregory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Winding Stair and Other Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
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modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | verse ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Byzantine art and culture
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Irish Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Yeats's occult studies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Irish politics
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aging ⓘ art and mortality ⓘ mysticism ⓘ personal memory ⓘ violence and history ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of old age and artistic transcendence
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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) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| publisher | Macmillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reflectsAuthorLifePeriod | Yeats's later years ⓘ |
| settingElement | Thoor Ballylee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titlePoem | The Tower (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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