The world is always failing. You could write a history of the end of days, and it would cover human existence from the beginning. If we didn’t fairly regularly fall into fits of certainty that ...
November 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous and influential poems of the 20th century. It is titled “The Second Coming.” It was written in 1919 by the Irish ...
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 ...