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The first edition of W. B. Yeats's "The Tower" appeared in
bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English
publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of
twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately
embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly became a
bestseller.
Subsequent versions of the volume made various changes throughout,
but this Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly that seminal
first edition as it reached its earliest audience in 1928, adding
an introduction and notes by esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J.
Finneran.
Written between 1912 and 1927, these poems ("Sailing to
Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Among School Children" among
them) are today considered some of the best and most famous in the
entire Yeats canon. As Virginia Woolf declared in her unsigned
review of this collection, "Mr. Yeats has never written more
exactly and more passionately."
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