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The Tower

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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