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“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...
Yeats's solution is to leave the country of the young and travel to Byzantium, where the sages in the city's famous gold mosaics could become the "singing-masters" of his soul. He hopes the sages will appear in fire and take him away from his body into an existence outside time, where, like a great work of art, he could exist in "the artifice ...
Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a 1920 book of poems by W. B. Yeats. It includes the poems: Michael Robartes and the Dancer; Solomon and the Witch; An Image from a Past Life; Under Saturn; Easter, 1916; Sixteen Dead Men; The Rose Tree; On a Political Prisoner; The Leaders of the Crowd; Towards Break of Day; Demon and Beast; The Second Coming ...
Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin. [109] His other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects. Yeats's middle period saw him abandon the pre-Raphaelite character of his early work [110] and attempt to turn himself into a Landor-style social ironist. [111]
The Second Coming (Percy novel), a 1980 novel by Walker Percy "The Second Coming" (poem), a 1920 poem by William Butler Yeats 'Salem's Lot or Second Coming, a 1975 novel by Stephen King; The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader, a book edited by Patrick Califia and Robin Sweeney; The Second Coming: A Love Story, a 2014 novel by Scott Pinsker
1920 – "The Second Coming" 1921 – Michael Robartes and the Dancer, poems; published in February, although book itself states "1920" [2] 1921 – Four Plays for Dancers, plays; includes contents of Two Plays for Dancers, published in 1919, together with At the Hawk's Well and Calvary [2] 1921 – Four Years; 1922 – Later Poems [2]
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian and Muslim belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).
The Symbolist Movement in Literature, first published in 1899, and with additional material in 1919, is a work by Arthur Symons largely credited with bringing French Symbolism to the attention of Anglo-American literary circles.