Byzantium’s antiquity and grandeur are timeless and static – Yeats’s ‘monuments of unaging intellect’. The future lies elsewhere, in the rise of a West from which Byzantium is excluded. As with most ...
The poem let him write it. Poetry also leads us to revelations that are, without it, beyond us. In Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium,” the distance travelled between “Whatever is begotten, born, and dies” ...
The Private Collection of Mary and Alan Hobart – Pioneers of Modern British and Irish Art realised a total of £5,988,024.