Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Is this yet a country for old men? As Republicans gather in the Twin Cities, prepared to nominate their oldest first candidate for president ever, 72-year-old ...

The earlier Sailing to Byzantium is better known, but Byzantium, dated 1930, is surely one of Yeats’s greatest poetic achievements. Although his occult and alchemical preoccupations, collected in that ...

My aunt, a teacher of English, read me the poem at a young age. What struck me then, and today still, was the daunting prospect of one day leaving the realm of “whatever is begotten, born, and dies” ...

I've been having a Yeatsian week. First off, I went to the British Library for Josephine Hart's Poetry Hour. The novelist has been promoting poetry since 2004, charming the likes of Jeremy Irons, ...

As a retired professor of English poetry often I have time to re-read some of the poems that I have taught to my students in the classroom. Among them there are many and various kinds of poems by ...

When the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats prayed for some kind of connection to permanence and immortality, his thoughts turned to Byzantine art as the most perfect emblem of the profound, ...

Tippett: Byzantium; Symphony No. 4 Faye Robinson, soprano; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor (London). In a 1974 collection of essays, Michael Tippett wrote that his true function as ...