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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 ...
The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. 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.
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.
1928 – The Tower, includes "Sailing to Byzantium" [2] 1928 – The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary, poems [2] 1928 – Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage; 1929 – A Packet for Ezra Pound, poems [2] 1929 – The Winding Stair published by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, now exceedingly rare
"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.
"Sailing to Byzantium" is a novella by the American writer Robert Silverberg. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in February 1985, [1] then in June 1985 with a book edition. [2] The novella takes its name from the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats. The story, like the poem, deals with immortality, and includes ...
English translation Inés García de la Puente (2010) [5] 7.1 Поляномъ же живъшимъ особь по горамъ When the Polianians lived by themselves among the hills, 7.2 симъ, и бѣ путь из Варягъ въ Грьки и из and there was a route from the Varangians to the Greeks and from 7.3
Shelley translated the Homeric Hymns into English in ottava rima. 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]