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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Tower

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Tower

Introduction:

The Tower, published in 1928, is probably Yeats' most important single
volume. Certainly it contains many of his most famous, most widely read,
anthologized, quoted, studied and explicated poems, major works life "Sailing
to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," "The Tower" and "Among School Children."
Indeed, as one leafs through this section in the Collected Poems, one is
struck by the consistently high - the brilliant - level of achievement that
the poet was able to maintain throughout. Yeats, of course, was as skillful
and ...

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