SOURCE: “George Herbert and Yeats's ‘Sailing to Byzantium’,” in Four Decades of Poetry, 1890-1930, Vol. 1, 1976, pp. 51-53.
In the following essay, McFarland considers the influence of George Herbert's work on “Sailing to Byzantium.”
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