Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Is this yet a country for old men? As Republicans gather in the Twin Cities, prepared to nominate their oldest first candidate for president ever, 72-year-old ...

After Tuesday’s two early poems by W B Yeats, here is a later one. Byzantium, the modern Istanbul, had obviously mystical connotations for the poet as he contemplates age – “An aged man is but a ...

Having never missed an issue in more than a century, the Sewanee Review is the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the country. Begun in 1892 at The University of the South in Sewanee, ...