Research Catalog

Title

The tower (1928) : a facsimile edition / with an introduction and notes by Richard J. Finneran.

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Publication

New York : Scribner, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Finneran, Richard J.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xx, vi, 134 p.; 19 cm.

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.

Subject

• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xix-xx).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

0743247280 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003065187

OCLC

• 54856975
• SCSB-10739637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library