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  2. The Tower (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received by the public. [1] The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower which Yeats purchased and restored in ...

  3. The Tower (poem) - Wikipedia

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    It is the second poem in The Tower, a 1928 collection of Yeats' poems. The poem features Yeats wrestling with his old age. He contemplates the foolish actions of his neighbors and wonders how they responded to their own aging, then celebrates the Anglo-Irish people and offers them his "faith and pride" as an inheritance .

  4. Sailing to Byzantium - Wikipedia

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    Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...

  5. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Wikipedia

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    "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is a narrative poem by English author Robert Browning, written on 2 January 1852, [1] and first published in 1855 in the collection titled Men and Women. [2] The poem is often noted for its dark and atmospheric imagery , inversion of classical tropes , and use of unreliable narration .

  6. The Tower - Wikipedia

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    The Tower (poetry collection), a book of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1928 "The Tower" (poem), by William Butler Yeats The Tower (Stern novel), a novel by Richard Martin Stern, 1973, adapted into the film The Towering Inferno

  7. The Winding Stair and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    First edition (1933) The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933.It was the next new volume after 1928's The Tower.The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare.

  8. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    The speaker of the poem is the character Aedh, who appears in Yeats's work alongside two other archetypal characters of the poet's myth: Michael Robartes and Red Hanrahan. The three characters, according to Yeats, represent the "principles of the mind;" whereas Robartes is intellectually powerful and Hanrahan represents Romantic primitivism ...

  9. Henry Cuyler Bunner - Wikipedia

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    Henry Cuyler Bunner (August 3, 1855 – May 11, 1896) was an American novelist, journalist and poet. [1] He is known mainly for Tower of Babel.. Bunner's works have been praised by librarians for its "technical dexterity, playfulness and smoothness of finish".