num_pages: 238
description: A specialist in modernist poets, Murphey (English, U. of Arkansas-Little Rock) examines how Irish poet Yeats (1865-1939) used images of the Greek city in his writing and what he meant by them. Among his topics are the true image of Christ, Byzantine history and culture, the dome in ancient funerary and religious art, the origins of the domed structure in church architecture, a supernatural splendor as revealed in Yeats' photograph collection, the lessons of Sailing to Byzantium, the emperor's pavement and Byzantium, and the long schoolroom. The text is double spaced. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The Meaning of Byzantium in the Poetry and Prose of W. B. Yeats: The Artifice of Eternity
titlecomplete: The Meaning of Byzantium in the Poetry and Prose of W. B. Yeats: The Artifice of Eternity (Studies in British Literature, 84)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr