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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 ...
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 ...
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics is the second poetry collection of W. B. Yeats. [1] [2]It includes the play The Countess Cathleen and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of The Rose in his Collected Poems.
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
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
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.
"the centre cannot hold", a phrase from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats; The Centre Cannot Hold, a 2017 album by Ben Frost; American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold, a novel by Harry Turtledove; The Centre Cannot Hold, an EP by Digitonal; The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, a book by Elyn Saks
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of The Wild Swans at Coole in 1919. [1] The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First World War in which the narrator describes the circumstances surrounding his imminent death.