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)
Kapitel
| Sailing to Byzantium | 2:37 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| The Tower | 12:03 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Meditations in Time of Civil War | 11:07 | Gelesen von David George Kennedy |
| Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | 9:11 | Gelesen von earl |
| The Wheel | 0:43 | Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr |
| Youth and Age | 0:27 | Gelesen von Sagarika |
| The New Faces | 0:48 | Gelesen von Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi |
| A Prayer for My Son | 1:40 | Gelesen von Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi |
| Two Songs from a Play | 1:29 | Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr |
| Wisdom | 1:11 | Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk |
| Leda and the Swan | 1:06 | Gelesen von KevinS |
| On a Picture of a Black Centaur | 1:24 | Gelesen von KevinS |
| Among School Children | 3:55 | Gelesen von KevinS |
| Colonus' Praise | 1:57 | Gelesen von KevinS |
| The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool | 1:59 | Gelesen von jack2 |
| Owen Ahern and his Dancers | 2:37 | Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk |
| A Man Young and Old | 6:15 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Three Monuments | 0:51 | Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr |
| From 'Oedipus at Colonus' | 1:22 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid | 14:12 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| All Soul's Night | 6:39 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |