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- Title
Yeats's `Sailing to Byzantium' and Scott's Count Robert of Paris.
- Authors
Larrissy, Edward
- Abstract
The article focuses on the influence of the book "Count Robert of Paris," by Walter Scott on the poem "Sailing to Byzantium," by W. B. Yeats. The author discusses how a description of the ancient city of Constantinople in Scott's work may have been the source for the lines about the golden bird in Yeats poem.
- Subjects
SAILING to Byzantium (Poem : Yeats); SCOTT, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832; COUNT Robert of Paris (Book); YEATS, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939; INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.); ISTANBUL (Turkey) in literature; BIRDS in literature
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1995, Vol 42, Issue 2, p210
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/42.2.210