Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Campbell, Harry Modean. “Yeats's ‘Sailing to Byzantium.’” Modern Language Notes 70, no. 8 (December 1955): 585-89.
Discusses critical responses to Yeats's poem.
Corbett, David Peters. “T. Sturge Moore's ‘Do We or Do We Not, Know It?’ and the Writing of ‘Byzantium.’” In Yeats Annual No. 10, edited by Warwick Gould, pp. 241-49. London, England: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1993.
Provides a historical context for the poem, focusing on Yeats's correspondence with T. Sturge Moore.
Daalder, Joost. “Some Possible Sources for ‘Sailing to Byzantium’: A Reconsideration.” Yeats Eliot Review 9, no. 1 (fall 1987): 1-16.
Argues that Archibald A. Hill's earlier piece on Yeats's ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is mistaken and that Keats's “Ode to a Nightingale” and Hans Christian Andersen's story “The Nightingale” are in fact sources for Yeats's...
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