Creator
Vintage photograph and photograph of a drawing by Robert Gregory
Title
Thoor Ballylee
Subject
W. B. Yeats’s copies, with “Mrs. George Yeats” annotation on rear and Cuala Industry stamp on the reverse of the drawing.
Description
W. B. Yeats bought and began renovating the Norman tower, Thoor Ballylee, in 1917 with his wife, George. It became for him a physical and spiritual locus for his poetry, including his eponymous collection, The Tower (1928) as well as The Winding Stair (1929). This photo, originally belonging to the Yeats family, was among several used for Althea Gyles’s cover design of Yeats’s 1928 volume, The Tower.
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