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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Winding Stair

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

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Winding Stair

Introduction:

Yeats began to put this 1933 volume together in 1927, when The Tower
itself was still only in galleys. It serves, as John Unterecker has noted, as
a kind of answer to that earlier volume. Sick and weak, Yeats "suddenly
realized that he might die," writes Unterecker. "But he felt, the pattern
of life and work was not complete. The Tower had been a distortion, half
the picture, its emphasis on a man making his soul; flesh, too, demanded
its due. Life,the silken sheath, a woman young and old, the immortality of
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