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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 24 January 2008
 
Coen brothers gain inspiration from WB Yeats

• WILLIAM Hall says of this Coen brothers’ movie, No Country for Old Men (Review, January 17) “Strange title, but that’s the way it goes…” 
The title is from the first line of William Butler Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium: 
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees... 
The second stanza has the famous lines,
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing…
Tommy Lee Jones might have inspired the Coen brothers to look to Yeats.
Norbert Hirschhorn
Greencroft Gardens, NW6


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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