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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.
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 ...
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 .
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; The Tower (Wilson novel), a novel by Colin Wilson
The poem is known in several versions. The text given in the present article (framed) is the one displayed on a metal plate in the tower. Slightly different versions were published in 1884 in the Good Words magazine [20] and in 1885 in Tiresias and Other Poems. [21] Many of these poems were published in the privately printed Book of Helen's ...
"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 .
The Tower is a 1973 novel by Richard Martin Stern. It is one of the two books drawn upon for the screenplay Stirling Silliphant wrote for the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno , the other being the 1974 novel The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson .
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".