The Tower

First published in 1928, this poetry collection gathers lyrics written mainly after Yeats's purchase of the Norman tower at Thoor Ballylee. Typical pieces include Sailing to Byzantium, The Tower, Leda and the Swan, Among School Children, and the Civil War sequences, turning on age, the Irish wars, ancestral houses, and a private system of gyres and masks. The speaker moves between the tower stairs, a schoolroom, and visionary cities. The book is a mid-career verse collection, not a play and not a continuous narrative.

Quarter bound in blue buckram, Rackenmarmor Swedish marbled paper boards, blue buckram cover-label. Blue-grey endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-jacket, no slipcase.