03860nam a22004335i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001600169072002300185072001500208100007900223245010500302250001800407264008500425300004400510336002600554337002600580338003600606347002400642505055000666520183201216650001203048650003803060650002803098650002403126650003403150650002803184710003403212773002603246776003603272776003603308776003603344856004603380978-3-031-60784-4DE-He21320251030112946.0cr nn 008mamaa240910s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316078447 a10.1007/978-3-031-60784-42doi 4aPN1010-1551 7aDSC2bicssc 7aLIT0140002bisacsh 7aDSC2thema1 aIwatsubo, Tomoko.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aBuilding W. B. Yeats's Later Poetryh[electronic resource] :bThe Tower Poems /cby Tomoko Iwatsubo.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVII, 285 p. 3 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1 Introduction: Yeats’s Tower Project -- 2 Anticipatory Construction in The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) -- 3 Restoring the Tower at Ballylee in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) -- 4 Building Thoor Ballylee: ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, The Tower (1928) -- 5 Building a Symbol ‘at the Foundation of a Nation’: ‘The Tower’, The Tower (1928) -- 6 Winding Up and Farewell: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) and After -- 7 Coda: Building by ‘the Flooded Stream’: Agency and Contingency in Yeats’s Tower Project.  aThis book explores Yeats’s later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of ‘building’ – architectural, textual, political and symbolic – were closely interrelated. It chronologically examines Yeats’s tower poems, composed during a period of dramatic personal and national transformation, from 1915 to 1932. Within a year after the Easter Rising in Dublin, Yeats acquired a half-ruined Norman tower in County Galway, Ireland, which had enthralled him for the past two decades, and textually and architecturally constructed it into a focus of his life and work. Interweaving the account of the renovation of the actual building and the textual construction in the socio-historical contexts, the book reveals the evolution of Yeats’s multiplex tower as an organizing principle of his later poetry. Using the archive of correspondence and manuscript materials of relevant poems, including those which have thus far escaped close attention, the book offers close textual-genetic analyses and a diachronic view of Yeats’s tower poetry, which, with its foundations laid decades earlier, he built in the collections from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) to The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933). Highlighting the delicate exchange between poetry and biography as well as between the textual architecture and the actual one, identifying a turning point in the making of each tower-oriented poem and proposing some draft-dating revisions, this first book-length systematic study on the process of Yeats’s creation of the tower casts an unfamiliar light on a familiar yet underexplored landmark in modern poetry and makes his step-by-step construction work come alive. Tomoko Iwatsubo is Professor at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. She has published a number of articles on W. B. Yeats. 0aPoetry. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aComparative literature.14aPoetry and Poetics.24aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aComparative Literature.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303160783708iPrinted edition:z978303160785108iPrinted edition:z978303160786840uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60784-4