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  2. Sailing to Byzantium - Wikipedia

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    Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...

  3. The Winding Stair and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    Byzantium" is a sequel to "Sailing to Byzantium" (from The Tower), meant to better explain the ideas of the earlier poem. An important insight on Yeats's concern of death lay in the poem "Byzantium" which further exploits the contrast of the physical and spiritual form and the final stanza concludes by differentiating the two.

  4. The Tower (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received by the public. [1] The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower which Yeats purchased and restored in ...

  5. W. B. Yeats bibliography - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised.

  6. W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia

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    William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.

  7. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    In the weeks preceding Yeats′s writing of the poem, his pregnant wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, caught the virus and was very close to death, but she survived. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women, who in some areas had a death rate of up to 70%. Yeats wrote the poem while his wife was convalescing. [6] [1]

  8. 38 Best Dumbledore Quotes From 'Harry Potter' - AOL

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    Behold, below we've gathered 38 of the best Dumbledore quotes about life, love, friendship, Muggles, and, of course, magic. Related: 'Harry Potter' Actor Michael Gambon Dead at 82.

  9. Ottava rima - Wikipedia

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    In the 20th century, William Butler Yeats used the form in several of his best later poems, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Among School Children". [3] So did Kenneth Koch for instance in his autobiographical poem "Seasons on Earth" of 1987. [4] In America Emma Lazarus wrote the poem An Epistle that consists of thirty four ottava rimas.