Overview: Explores Yeats’s tower-oriented poems, composed during a period of dramatic personal and national change (1915-1932).Shows how Thoor Ballylee, the tower Yeats reconstructed in County Galway, became a .This book explores Yeats’s later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of ‘building’ – architectural, textual, political and symbolic – were closely interrelated. It chronologically examines Yeats’s tower poems, composed during a period of dramatic personal and national transformation, from 1915 to 1932. Within a year after the Easter Rising in Dublin, Y
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