SOURCE: “Yeats's ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and the Limits of Modern Literary Criticism,” in Revue des Langues Vivantes, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 5, 1972, pp. 492-507.
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.
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