The tower
by W. B. Yeats
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About This Book
The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly became a bestseller. Subsequent versions of the volume made various changes throughout, but this Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly that seminal first edition as it reached its earliest audience in 1928, adding an introduction and notes by esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. ...
Chapters (94)
- The Tower
- CONTENTS
- Sailing to Byzantium
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- The Tower
- I
- II
- III
- Meditations in Time of Civil War
- I Ancestral Houses
- II My House
- III My Table
- IV My Descendants
- V The Road at My Door
- VI The Stare’s Nest by My Window
- VII I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
- Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- The Wheel
- Youth and Age
- The New Faces
- A Prayer for My Son
- Two Songs from a Play
- I
- II
- Wisdom
- Leda and the Swan
- On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmond Dulac
- Among School Children
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- Colonus’ Praise
- (From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’)
- Chorus
- The Hero, The Girl, and The Fool
- The Girl
- The Hero
- The Girl
- The Hero
- The Girl
- The Fool by the Roadside
- Owen Ahern and His Dancers
- I
- II
- A Man Young and Old
- First Love
- Human Dignity
- The Mermaid
- The Death of the Hare
- The Empty Cup
- His Memories
- The Friends of His Youth
- Summer and Spring
- The Secrets of the Old
- His Wildness
- The Three Monuments
- From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid
- All Souls’ Night
- An Epilogue to ‘A Vision’
- NOTES
- SAILING TO BYZANTIUM
- Stanza IV
- THE TOWER. Part II
- THE TOWER. Part III
- The Dying Swan
- MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR
- Section Six
- Section Seven, Stanza II
- Section Seven, Stanza IV
- NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN
- Section Six
- TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY
- AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN
- Stanza III
- THE GIFT OF HARUN AL-RASHID
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