The Tower was a book of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1928. The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats purchased and lived in for some time with his family. The book includes...
WASHINGTON - John Tower believes his former Senate colleagues did him wrong when they rejected his nomination as defense secretary. Now he is trying to settle the score. Sen. J. James Exon, a Nebraska Democrat, is a "genuine boozer," Tower writes in a...
By Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius. Yale University Press 1994. 40 [pounds sterling]. This is an astonishing book, scarcely to be taken in at one reading (or capable of being so read). No wonder it required two authors. It combines an exhaustive trawl...
The complete list of 2007 Tower Awards winners: Story of the Year: Esquire, June 2006 - "The School" (The story of the attack on School No. 1 in the Russian town of Beslan.) Best Reporting: Popular Mechanics, March 2006 - "Now What? The Lessons of...
The New York Times as a copyboy in 1944, the uniformed elevator men wore white gloves, the desk editors donned green eye shades, and reporters making phone calls from the third-floor newsroom had to be connected by one of the dozen female operators seated at...
In the following essay, the author argues against the generally accepted interpretation of “Sailing to Byzantium” that the “I” of the poem considers that “engrossment in poetry is the only, but a sufficient, recompense for the privations of old age,” and against the critical approach of paying “as little attention as possible to the emotional content of literature and to our emotional responses to it.”
Source: Parks, L. C. “The Hidden Aspect of ‘Sailing to Byzantium.’ Études Anglaises 16, no. 4 (October-December 1963): 333-44. In the following essay, the author shows that “the form of ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ closely follows the form of a Rosicrucian initiation into an ideal order of reality” and that “by means of this poem, Yeats achieves his lifelong goal: a fusion of his esthetic with an occult idealism.”
