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1926 – Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats, nonfiction; see also, Autobiography 1938 [2] 1927 – October Blast [2] 1927 – Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction [2] 1927 – The Resurrection, a short play first performed in 1934; 1928 – The Tower, includes "Sailing to Byzantium" [2]
Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin. [109] His other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects. Yeats's middle period saw him abandon the pre-Raphaelite character of his early work [110] and attempt to turn himself into a Landor-style social ironist. [111]
A second poem written by W. B. Yeats, "Byzantium", extends and complements "Sailing to Byzantium". It blends descriptions of the medieval city in nighttime darkness with spiritual, supernatural and artistic imagery. Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay's historical fantasy two-part series The Sarantine Mosaic was inspired by this poem. [6]
In the weeks preceding Yeats′s writing of the poem, his pregnant wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, caught the virus and was very close to death, but she survived. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women, who in some areas had a death rate of up to 70%. Yeats wrote the poem while his wife was convalescing. [6] [1]
The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. 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.
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems was the first collection of poems by W. B. Yeats.It was published in 1889. [1]In addition to the title poem, the last epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes a number of short poems that Yeats would later collect under the title Crossways in his Collected Poems.