Project Gutenberg 2024-02-18 Public domain in the USA. 228 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865 1939 Yeats, William Butler 28010730 The tower $aLondon :$bMacmillan and Co, Limited, $c1928. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_(poetry_collection) Produced by Christopher Hapka. Images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library. "The Tower" by W. B. Yeats is a collection of poems written during the early 20th century. The book features Yeats' exploration of themes such as aging, beauty, and the pursuit of artistic and personal identity. Through his verses, Yeats reflects on the passage of time and the complexities of human experience, often intermingling personal introspections with broader cultural and historical observations. The book consists of several significant poems, including the renowned "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Meditations in Time of Civil War." In these poems, Yeats grapples with the inevitability of aging and the longing for transcendence in art and spirituality. He invokes rich imagery and classical references to evoke a sense of nostalgia and an existential quest for meaning. The poems often highlight the tension between the physical decay of old age and the unyielding vigor of artistic imagination, leaving readers to contemplate the interplay between life and death, memory and oblivion. Overall, "The Tower" is a deeply philosophical and emotional journey through the nuances of life, art, and the search for enduring truths. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000002551705 20240119001850yeats 1928 GB Reading ease score: 60.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en English poetry -- Irish authors PR Text Category: Poetry Category: British Literature 118992 2025-06-29T04:16:44.904196 text/html 94167 2024-02-18T13:23:35 text/html 197725 2025-06-29T04:16:50.280187 application/epub+zip 195103 2025-06-29T04:16:46.216206 application/epub+zip 194365 2025-06-29T04:16:45.475184 application/epub+zip 838301 2025-06-29T04:16:52.722166 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 814235 2025-06-29T04:16:49.519217 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 81040 2025-06-29T04:16:44.264214 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 61291 2024-02-18T13:23:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16035 2025-06-29T04:16:52.932157 application/rdf+xml 26292 2025-06-29T04:16:45.689178 image/jpeg 3502 2025-06-29T04:16:45.579184 image/jpeg 294050 2025-06-29T04:16:44.916220 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia