SOURCE: “Yeats's ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and Keats's ‘Ode to a Nightingale’,” in W. B. Yeats, 1865-1965: Centenary Essays on the Art of W. B. Yeats, edited by D. E. S. Maxwell and S. B. Bushrui, Ibadan University Press, 1965, pp. 217-19.
In the following essay, Fréchet assesses the influence of Keats's “Ode to a Nightingale” on “Sailing to Byzantium.”
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