The Tower
On reading Yeats's Collected Poems as he travelled around Ireland, Charles Brasch wrote: 'Here was the work of a living poet which sounded like sea surge in my ears and haunted me no less than that of any of the great dead.' When Yeats died in 1939, Brasch wrote gloomily: 'It was the worst time I had ever known.' The Tower is considered one of Yeats's best works. This copy, with its Sturge Moore illustrated binding, is from the Brasch Collection.