The Tower | poetry by Yeats | Britannica (original) (raw)

Learn about this topic in these articles:

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…
  Read More

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…
  Read More