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* W. B. YEATS T HE T O W ER (1928) A FACSIMILE EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY RICHARD J. FINNERAN SCRIBNER NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY SCRIBNER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright 1928 by The Macmillan Company Copyright renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats Annotations, notes, and introduction copyright © 2004 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. First Scribner trade paperback edition 2004 SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales: 1-800-456-6798 or [email protected] DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING Text set in Scotch Roman Manufactured in the United States of America 3 5 79 10 8 64 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. The tower : a facsimile edition / W. B. Yeats ; with an introduction and notes by Richard J. Finneran.—1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. p. cm. I. Finneran, Richard J. II. Title. PR5904.T6 2004 821'.8—dc22 2003065187 ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-4728-3 ISBN-10: 0-7432-4728-0 CONTENTS PREFACE VII INTRODUCTION IX THE TOWER (1928) 1 NOTES TO YEATS'S NOTES ill NOTES TO THE POEMS 115 V PREFACE This edition offers a facsimile of the first London edition of The Tower, published by Macmillan on 14 February 1928. The copy used is that in the Wilson Library, Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PR5904.T6 1928 Copy 1). This edition also offers an introduction that traces the production of the 1928 volume and the later revisions as well as annotations to Yeats's Notes and editorial notes to each poem. I am grateful to George Bornstein of the University of Michigan and Charles B. McNamara of the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for their suggestions and to Sarah McGrath of Scrib- ner for her support of this project. I am also indebted to John McGhee for his careful work in seeing the volume through the press. This edition is dedicated to Nora FitzGerald. R.J.F Wildwood, Missouri 19 July 2002 vii
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