Yeats, The Best Kind of Memorization

William Butler Yeats

Read By: Robert Pinsky

An account of a poem that attained, for the lecturer, the mysterious appeal of music. William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” entered his memory without systematic effort—the way a piece of music might.

  • William Butler Yeats
  • 20th Century
  • English
  • What is “Great”
  • Lecture
  • Greatness
  • The Art of Poetry