WB Yeats’s 1919 poem The Second Coming has found currency with modern writers and commentators.

“The Second Coming” is a powerful brief against punditry. The Christian era was about the ability to predict the future: the New Testament clearly foretold the second coming of Christ. In the ...

WB Yeats's The Second Coming was written at a momentous time in 20th-century Europe, an era of uncertainty and upheaval in the wake of the first World War and in the teeth of Ireland's ...

The prophetic verses of The Second Coming – "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" – have been invoked time and again but do not lose their power.

Yeats Society Sligo is partnering with the National Library of Ireland to celebrate the centenary of the publication of "The Second Coming" one of WB Yeats' best known poems.

There are women who win their men by faking orgasms. Ovid recommended it. Georgie Hyde Lees, who became Mrs. W. B. Yeats, won her poet by faking messages from the spirit world. Or were her visions ...

The British pound is at a 30-year-low, as you will have heard. But as you may not have heard, another hard currency – the poetry of WB Yeats, and one poem in particular – is at a 30-year-high ...

Famous Irish Poet WB Yeats wrote the poem "The Second Coming" at the end of World War I in 1919. It has been referenced many times over the years; in particular when the world faces potentially ...

The poetry of W. B. Yeats faces up to fanaticism and, as Yeats himself fell in love with a fanatic, tries to understand and go beyond it.