SOURCE: “Yeats: To Byzantium,” in Strangers and Pilgrims: An Essay on the Metaphor of Journey, Norwegian Universities Press, 1964, pp. 337-52.
In the following essay, Roppen and Sommer explore the defining themes of “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Byzantium,” contending that the poems “work out a myth of spiritual and artistic rebirth.”
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