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303160783X rar This book explores Yeatss later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of building architectural, textual, political and symbolic were closely interrelated. It chronologically examines Yeatss tower poems, composed during a period of dramatic personal and national transformation, from 1915 to 1932. Within a year after the Easter Rising in Dublin, Yeats acquired a half-ruined Norman tower in County Galway, Ireland, which had enthralled him for the past two decades, and textually and architecturally constructed it into a focus of his life and work. Interweaving the account of the renovation of the actual building and the textual construction in the socio-historical contexts, the book reveals the evolution of Yeatss multiplex tower as an organizing principle of his later poetry. Using the archive of correspondence and manuscript materials of relevant poems, including those which have thus far escaped close attention, the book offers close textual-genetic analyses and a diachronic view of Yeatss tower poetry, which, with its foundations laid decades earlier, he built in the collections from Read more