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