The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower includes some of his greatest and most innovative poems including 'Sailing to Byzantium', a lyrical meditation on man's disillusionment with the physical world; 'Leda and the Swan', a violent and graphic take on the Greek myth of Leda and Zeus and 'Among School Children', a poetic contemplation of life, love and the creative process.
- ISBN10 141918542X
- ISBN13 9781419185427
- Publish Date 1 June 2004 (first published 6 May 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 November 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Kessinger Publishing Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 48
- Language English