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The Tower

poetry by Yeats

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discussed in biography

In William Butler Yeats
The Tower (1928), named after the castle he owned and had restored, is the work of a fully accomplished artist; in it, the experience of a lifetime is brought to perfection of form. Still, some of Yeats’s greatest verse was written subsequently, appearing in The…
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place in English literature

In English literature: Celtic Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, Jones, and MacDiarmid
…Robartes and the Dancer (1921), The Tower (1928), and The Winding Stair (1929) derived in large measure from the way in which (caught up by the violent discords of contemporary Irish history) he accepted the fact that his idealized Ireland was illusory. At its best his mature style combined passion…
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