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Sailing To Byzantium. Yeats and the Young Mind
Wakefield, Dan | June 23, 1956 issue

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The younger intelligentsia of the twenties in the United States, at least that part of it that dealt with ideas, was crossing the ocean to Paris, France, or plan fling to. Their counterparts of thirties were going to Spain, either physically or vicariously via rallies scribed by the poet William Butler Yeats in his poems "Byzantium" and "Sailing to Byzantium" seems to hold the climate most desired by the recently graduated English majors. It is usually the dream of the young, no matter how tangled the world they inherit, that they and their friends will be able to master it.

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YOUTH; INTELLECTUALS; YEATS, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939; POETS; SPAIN; UNITED States
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