Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco’s latest work, Lastingness: The Art of Old Age, was recently featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” From the feature: In 1928, when poet William Butler Yeats was in his 60s, he wrote “Sailing to Byzantium,” in which he laments, An aged man is but a paltry thing / A tattered coat upon a […]

Nicholas Delbanco was recently featured in The Washington Post’s books section in a piece titled, “The Writing Life: Nicholas Delbanco.” For this feature, Delbanco contributed an essay titled, “Remembering the Reys,” and was interviewed by Marie Arana. That essay, as well as the podcast for the interview, are both available on The Washington Post website. […]