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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 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.
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ISBN: 9780241303092
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 August 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 187.0mm
Weight: 150g
Pages: 80
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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.
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