William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...
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William Butler Yeats, a pivotal figure in modern literature, masterfully blended mysticism, politics, and folklore, ...
In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...
Picture this: a little girl wrapped up in her blankets, flashlight in hand, reading carefully an illustrated book of celtic history her grandparents gave her. In this book, she reads countless tales ...
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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what a 100 year-old poem by William Butler Yeats means today. Opinion: Reading William Butler Yeats 100 Years Later William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a ...