The Tower
William Butler Yeats
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The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title refers to Ballylee Castle, an old Norman tower in the west of Ireland which Yeats purchased in 1917 and renovated for use as a summer residence and where he wrote much of his poetry.
The book includes his well known poems Sailing to Byzantium and Leda and the Swan.
Summary by Alan Mapstone (1 hr 23 min)
Chapitres
| Sailing to Byzantium | 2:37 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| The Tower | 12:03 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Meditations in Time of Civil War | 11:07 | Lu par David George Kennedy |
| Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | 9:11 | Lu par earl |
| The Wheel | 0:43 | Lu par Agnes Robert Behr |
| Youth and Age | 0:27 | Lu par Sagarika |
| The New Faces | 0:48 | Lu par Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi |
| A Prayer for My Son | 1:40 | Lu par Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi |
| Two Songs from a Play | 1:29 | Lu par Agnes Robert Behr |
| Wisdom | 1:11 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| Leda and the Swan | 1:06 | Lu par KevinS |
| On a Picture of a Black Centaur | 1:24 | Lu par KevinS |
| Among School Children | 3:55 | Lu par KevinS |
| Colonus' Praise | 1:57 | Lu par KevinS |
| The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool | 1:59 | Lu par jack2 |
| Owen Ahern and his Dancers | 2:37 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| A Man Young and Old | 6:15 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| The Three Monuments | 0:51 | Lu par Agnes Robert Behr |
| From 'Oedipus at Colonus' | 1:22 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid | 14:12 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| All Soul's Night | 6:39 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |