ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933. It was the next new volume after 1928’s The Tower. (The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare.)

Detailed explanation-2: -The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933. It was the next new volume after 1928’s The Tower. (The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare.)

Detailed explanation-3: -The phrase “winding stair” is used in the poem “A Dialogue of Self and Soul”, which is an exploration of the opposition between the spiritually-minded man of God and the worldly-minded man of the sword. This is a later collection and is seen as part of his final phase of poetry.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the 17th century.