The Tower: A Facsimile Edition (Yeats Facsimile Edition)

I did an undergraduate dissertation on 'Meditations' and have a heavily worn copy.I wanted a fresh copy. This one is good, but I just prefer the feel of the heavy paper cover printing.

Satisfied.

Single finest published volume of poetry by one author during the 20th Century. Romantic and meditative piece on Eliot's "Wasteland" that our homelands have turned out to be. Must read.

One of the most glorious collections of poetry ever. Don't spoil the experience by attempting to read it on a screen. The paperback is handsomely done, and these superb poems deserve your full attention. Presentation matters with poetry, especially poetry of this quality.

This is supposedly a facsimile edition, but the poems are not shown on the page as they were in Yeats' first edition - thus a poem such as "Among Schoolchildren" which was written in octava rima is not structured on these pages that way. Stick with one of the other editions of the great man's poems.

The format is such that there's one character per line. Literally unreadable. Sure, the price is cheap, but not even worth a free download in this format.

The formatting is very strange and has weird spacing. Sometimes only one word shows up on a page. Makes it practically unreadable.

The text is of poor quality--so many typos that it's distracting. Same with the formatting. You get what you pay for!

This is not a first edition - book collectors take note!

This was the first book of poetry that Yeats published after winning the Nobel prize in 1923. The Prize often seems to be awarded to writers after they have creatively died, or to kill them off creatively. Yeats had the genius to survive his good fortune. Like Goethe he had the trick of remaining creative and relevant into old age.I bought the book because, although it is easy to come by a poet's "collecteds and selecteds", its often much harder to find books of their poems as they published them. I'm sure most of the time this is no great loss, but in this case the reissue is wholly justified, as Yeats reacts to his own ageing and to the transformation of Ireland going on around him.The binding and paper look as if they'll stand up to a few years of use, and it has a pretty cover.

I purchased this for myself as a keepsake copy. Delivery as expected. Beautiful presentation clothbound copy as described. Great value for such high quality.Very happy with my purchase. Highly recommend Blackwells Bookshop online.

bought as a gift but kept it for myself

Lovely book