Opinion: Reading William Butler Yeats 100 Years Later
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what a 100 year-old poem by William Butler Yeats means today.
by Scott Simon
Nov 28, 2020
2 minutes
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 overwhelming when millions more began to die in the
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