The Second Coming Resources

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Here’s the indie songwriter Bright Eyes performing "Four Winds," a song with lyrics inspired by "The Second Coming."

The guy from Law & Order reads "The Second Coming" to Anthony Hopkins. Nice accent, Sam.

There aren’t many recordings of Yeats’s voice out there, but here he is as an old man reading the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."

An image of interlocking gyres

A photo of the famous sphinx in Egypt

An online virtual exhibition about W.B. Yeats presented by the National Library of Ireland.

A site that explains more about Yeats’s theory that history moves in gyres.

This editorial from the New York Times talks about the recent impact of Yeats’s poem.

A biography of Yeats and links to many of his poems

Tons of stuff on the Book of Revelation, including links to the text itself in several translations.