The tower

The tower: a facsimile edition

by Yeats, W. B., (William Butler)

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The first edition of W.B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly became a bestseller. Subsequent versions of the volume made various changes throughout, but this Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly that seminal first edition as it reached its earliest…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The tower : a facsimile edition / W.B. Yeats ; with an introduction and notes by Richard J. Finneran.

Summary

The first edition of W.B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly became a bestseller. Subsequent versions of the volume made various changes throughout, but this Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly that seminal first edition as it reached its earliest audience in 1928, adding an introduction and notes by esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. Written between 1912 and 1927, these poems ("Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Among School Children" among them) are today considered some of the best and most famous in the entire Yeats canon.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2004.
  • Edition:1st Scribner trade pbk. ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Scribner
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2004.

Notes

"1928."

The Physical Object

  • Description:xx, vi, 134 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0743247280, 9780743247283
  • oclc:ocm53132449
  • LC Classification:PR5904
  • Dewey Decimal:821/.8

Table of Contents

The tower (1928) -- Notes to Yeat's notes -- Notes to the poems.

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Subjects

Irish poetry Irish poetry -- 20th century Poésie -- 20e siècle Poetry, Modern Poetry, Modern -- 20th century

Writers

Yeats, W. B., (William Butler) Finneran, Richard J.

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