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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.
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
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 ...
The group is funded by a donation from the late Christopher Tower, and run by Oxford University lecturer, Dr Anna Nickerson. Tower Poetry runs the annual Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes (also known as the Tower Poetry Competition) and the biennial Tower Poetry Summer School, a residential course for 18- to 23-year-olds, held at Christ Church. [1]
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 .
A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka, privately published in 1925, is a book-length study of various philosophical, historical, astrological, and poetic topics by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
Philip Maitland Hubbard (9 November 1910 – 17 March 1980) was a British writer. He was known principally for his crime and suspense novels and stories, although he wrote in other genres as well, contributing short stories and poetry to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and articles, verse, and parliamentary reports for Punch.