SOURCE: “Yeats' Golden Tree and Birds in the Byzantium Poems,” in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 67, No. 6, June, 1952, pp. 404-07.
In the following essay, Dume considers the origin of the tree and birds in “Sailing to Byzantium.”
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