In the following essay, Notopoulos investigates the sources for the imagery found in “Sailing to Byzantium.”
W. B. Yeats', “Sailing to Byzantium,” one of his best...
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In the following essay, San Juan offers a reading of “Sailing to Byzantium” that underscores the thematic concerns of the poem, particularly those of transition and change.
In spite o...
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Amman (dpa) - Jordan's ancient city of Petra is on course to
become one of the new seven wonders of the world after a shortlist of
candidates released by the organizers earl...
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Berlin (dpa) - One of Berlin's great museums from the age of the
kaisers, full of Byzantine, medieval and renaissance sculptures, is
to reopen next week after eight years of...
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Charlemagne believed in fair government for all.He ruled an empire called Francia that stretched larger than the boundaries of what today are France and Germany. Despite the great distances and dif...
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No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95.
The first reaction is visceral, and should be recorded here before the critical faculty interposes to hedge and q...
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No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95.The first reaction is visceral, and should be recorded here before the critical faculty interposes to hedge and qualif...
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Critical Essay by James A. Notopoulos
Petra on course for the World's New Seven Wonders title
