A torrent of bad news and political upheaval has given new life to a nearly 100-year-old poem written in the aftermath of World War I.

—William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming first published in The Dial (Nov. 1920) No poem has been quoted and applied to the American dilemma in Iraq with quite the frequency of this one. And most of ...

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 ...

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.

The poetry of W. B. Yeats faces up to fanaticism and, as Yeats himself fell in love with a fanatic, ... The prophetic verses of The Second Coming – "Things fall apart, ...

Why ‘The Second Coming’ has never gone away ... 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.

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 ...

W B Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...