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{{Wikisource|The Tower (Yeats)/Sailing to Byzantium|Sailing to Byzantium}}
"'''Sailing to Byzantium'''" is a poem by [[William Butler Yeats]], first published in
==Synopsis==
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A second poem written by W. B. Yeats, "[[The Winding Stair and Other Poems|Byzantium]]", extends and complements "Sailing to Byzantium". It blends descriptions of the medieval city in nighttime darkness with spiritual, supernatural and artistic imagery.
Canadian author [[Guy Gavriel Kay]]'s historical fantasy
The poem is referenced extensively in [[Philip Roth]]'s 2001
A phrase in the opening line of the poem, "no country for old men," has been adopted as the title for many literary works, most notably as the novel ''[[No Country for Old Men (novel)|No Country for Old Men]]'' by [[Cormac McCarthy]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Frye |first=S. |year=2006 |title=Yeats' 'Sailing to Byzantium' and McCarthy's ''No Country for Old Men'': Art and Artifice in the New Novel |journal=The Cormac McCarthy Society Journal |volume=5}}</ref>'' and [[No Country for Old Men|its film adaptation]], as well as the short story "No Country for Old Men" by [[Seán Ó Faoláin]], the novel ''No Country for Young Men'' by [[Julia O'Faolain]], and the novel ''No Country for Old Men'' by Alan Schwartz.
▲[[Philip Roth]]'s 2001 short novel ''[[The Dying Animal]]'' takes its title from the third stanza, and is explicitly referenced in the text.<ref>"Transnational Trauma and "the mockery of Armageddon": "The Dying Animal" in the New Millennium," AIMEE POZORSKI, ''Studies in American Jewish Literature'' Vol. 23 Philip Roth's America: The Later Novels (2004), pp. 122-134. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41206011</ref>
▲Canadian author [[Guy Gavriel Kay]]'s historical fantasy duology ''[[The Sarantine Mosaic]]'' was inspired by this poem.<ref>Dena Taylor, On Sailing to Sarantium, TransVersions 10, Toronto: Orchid Press, 1999, republished on Bright Weavings (Kay's authorized website) Archived 15 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine</ref>
==Notes==
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==External links==
* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/w-b-yeats/poetry|name=The collected public domain poetry of Yeats as an eBook|noitalics=true}}
*[http://www.nli.ie/yeats/ Watch 'Sailing to Byzantium' master class video (National Library of Ireland)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203220551/http://www.nli.ie/yeats/ |date=3 February 2007 }}
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