Volume 25, Number 20 · December 21, 1978
Heaven Can't Wait
By Stephen Spender
Mirabell: Books of Number
by James Merrill
Atheneum, 192 pp., $10.95
W. B. Yeats during the mid-Thirties remarked that the spiritual forces dominating humanity could be divided into three ages: first, the religious-ritualistic age of Greek antiquity; second, the modern political age through which we are now passing. He said the third and last age would be that of communication with the past in which the world would be directed by the dead. 'And that,' he added gloatingly, 'will be the worst age of all.'
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