The Tower (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: History, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Mental illness, Reality, Death or dying, Imagination, Songs or songwriters, Ireland or Irish people, Old age or elderly people, Mortality, Senses or sensation, Buildings, Platonism
Critical Evaluation:
The 1920’s were years of professional and personal achievement for William Butler Yeats. His son, Michael, was born in 1921. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, enjoying the worldwide recognition of not only his own work but also the Irish Literary Revival. In 1922, he was appointed to the first senate in the Irish Free State and received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College. Yeats was approaching his sixties and beginning to wonder what would be the impetus for his poetry in old age since so much of it had always been love poetry....
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