The Tower by William Butler Yeats, 104 pages
The Tower is an arrangement by Yeats of previously published poems and snippets from his translation of Sophocles' play Oedipus at Colonus. The two most famous poems, "Sailing to Byzantium" and "The Gift of Haroun al-Rashid", appear first and next-to-last, respectively, bookending the collection with themes of spiritual longing and mystery. The title work finds the poet brooding over age and mortality, while the last features a necromantic invocation of the ghosts of Dublin, with the author finally taking his place among them, and them alongside him.
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