The earlier Sailing to Byzantium is better known, but Byzantium, dated 1930, is surely one of Yeats’s greatest poetic achievements. Although his occult and alchemical preoccupations, collected ...

Yeats seemed to soften that journey for himself by sailing to Byzantium, where he imagined all to be right and balanced. He eventually found his “permanence” in art, a comforting thought perhaps.

I first heard WB Yeats’s poetry spoken aloud not by the ... in “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” and “Sailing to Byzantium”. The edition we had closed, with a twinkle, on that life ...

Remembering WB Yeats on his birth anniversary today ... inwards and ponders about old age and life. In 'Sailing to Byzantium', Yeats signifies his journey as a spiritual one.

The 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats ... where three Irish writers choose a Yeats poem as inspiration for a story. Episode one, Sailing To Byzantium, is Niall Williams’ enchanting ...

THE STATE HAS bought property of WB Yeats ... to purchase the Yeats family library. The Sligo poet wrote many famous works that include The Wild Swans of Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, and The ...

The 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats ... where three Irish writers choose a Yeats poem as inspiration for a story. Episode one, Sailing To Byzantium, is Niall Williams’ enchanting ...