SOURCE: “The Last Line of ‘Sailing to Byzantium’: A New Source,” in Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies: Vol. VIII, edited by Richard J. Finneran and Edward Engelberg, The University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 319-21.
In the following essay, Allison suggests a lecture by his father, John Butler Yeats, in 1906 as a possible source for the last line of “Sailing to Byzantium.”
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