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 ...

With music from Arvo Pärt, Elliott Carter, Holst and Richard Strauss and writing by authors including Diana Athill, Elaine Feinstein, Lewis Carroll, Roger McGough and WB Yeats. Show more Writings ...