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The Tower by W.B. Yeats

Tracing the history of a collection

  • Poems
    • “Sailing to Byzantium”
    • “The Tower”
    • Meditations in Time of Civil War
    • “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen”
    • The Wheel
    • Two Songs from a Play (The Song of the Folding and Unfolding of the Cloth & The Song of the Unfolding and Folding of the Cloth)
    • Leda and the Swan
    • On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmond Dulock
    • Among School Children
    • Colonus’ Praise
    • Wisdom
  • Publications
    • The Dial
    • The London Mercury
    • Seven Poems and a Fragment
    • October Blast (1927)
  • Credits
  • English @ SUNY Geneseo

Author: Paul Schacht

Paul Schacht is Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo
Posted on November 16, 2018

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About this site

“Put one way, there is no such thing as Yeats’s Tower volume; put another way, there are multiple forms of the material assembled in various arrangements and physical incarnations as The Tower”
– George Bornstein,
Building Yeats’s Tower

This project aims to track how Yeats’ 1928 volume The Tower was assembled, following the volume’s individual poems from their first publication to their placement in The Tower. Our intention is to challenge the idea that there is one stable, fixed text of The Tower. Rather, Yeats’s poetry is constantly evolving and gaining new context with each publication.

A Map of The Tower

On our home page is a Table of Contents for Yeats’s The Tower, as it would have appeared in the volume’s 1928 publication. You can click on a poem listed in our “Poems” menu to track its evolution, from first publication to its inclusion in The Tower. Each poem will be presented as it appeared in The Tower in 1928. Consult our “A Closer Look” sections in order to track the major changes made to this poem, as well as changes in context. You can consult our “Publications” menu to learn about several of the major publications in which Yeats first featured most of the poems which would later make up The Tower. Select a journal or volume to learn more about the history and literary context of that publication.

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