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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Sailing to Byzantium Information
1,783 words, approx. 6 pages
 "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas, each made up of eight ten-syllable lines. It depicts a portion of an old man’s journey to Byzantium. Through this... 
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 The New York Observer A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
7/24/2005: 1,290 words, approx. 4 pagesNo 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 qualify: I was so thoroughly sucked in and freaked out by... summary from source:
The New York Observer A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
7/24/2005: 1,288 words, approx. 4 pagesNo 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 qualify: I was so thoroughly sucked in and freaked out by No Country for...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Simon O. Lesser
16,843 words, approx. 56 pages
 In the following essay, the author argues against the generally accepted interpretation of “Sailing to Byzantium” that the “I” of the poem considers that “engrossment in poetry is the only, but a sufficient, recompense for the privations of old age,” and against the critical approach of paying “as little attention as possible to the emotional content of literature and to our emotional responses to it.”
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Critical Essay by Curtis Bradford
12,118 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Bradford examines Yeats's creative process by comparing early and later drafts of Yeats's “Sailing to Byzantium.”
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Critical Essay by William Empson
9,766 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Empson examines earlier drafts of Yeats's Byzantium poems to gain insight into the work.
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