Creator
W. B. Yeats
Title
The Tower
Coverage
London
Publisher
Macmillan & Co.
Date
1928
Description
One of the foremost books of poetry in the twentieth century, The Tower, described by Yeats as “...the best book I have written,” was received rapturously by critics. Within a few months of its February 1928 release, it was already in a second printing. Yeats and his family were driven from his actual tower in Ballylee in 1922 by the Irish Civil War. This collection commences with “Sailing to Byzantium,” with its opening, “That is no country for old men.” Few Nobel Prize winners have created such acclaimed work in the years following receipt of that award.
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