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The Tower

The Tower

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Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 01 hour and 23 minutes

Language: English

The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title refers to Ballylee Castle, an old Norman tower in the west of Ireland which Yeats purchased in 1917 and renovated for use as a summer residence and where he wrote much of his poetry.

The book includes his well known poems Sailing to Byzantium and Leda and the Swan.
Summary by Alan Mapstone

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Sailing to Byzantium (Alan Mapstone)
The Tower (Alan Mapstone)
Meditations in Time of Civil War (David George Kennedy)
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen (earl)
The Wheel (Agnes Robert Behr)
Youth and Age (Sagarika)
The New Faces (Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi)
A Prayer for My Son (Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi)
Two Songs from a Play (Agnes Robert Behr)
Wisdom (Bruce Kachuk)
Leda and the Swan (KevinS)
On a Picture of a Black Centaur (KevinS)
Among School Children (KevinS)
Colonus' Praise (KevinS)
The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool (jack2)
Owen Ahern and his Dancers (Bruce Kachuk)
A Man Young and Old (Larry Wilson)
The Three Monuments (Agnes Robert Behr)
From 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Larry Wilson)
The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid (Alan Mapstone)
All Soul's Night (Alan Mapstone)
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