The tower
Subtitle: a facsimile edition
By: W.B. Yeats ; with an introduction and notes by Richard J. Finneran.
Contributors: Finneran, Richard J.
Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-134).
"1928."