Videos
"Four Winds"
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Here’s the indie songwriter Bright Eyes performing "Four Winds," a song with lyrics inspired by "The Second Coming."
Law & Order
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The guy from Law & Order reads "The Second Coming" to Anthony Hopkins. Nice accent, Sam.
Audios
Yeats's Voice
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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."
Images
Gyres
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An image of interlocking gyres
The Sphinx
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A photo of the famous sphinx in Egypt
Websites
Online Exhibition
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An online virtual exhibition about W.B. Yeats presented by the National Library of Ireland.
Yeats and History
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A site that explains more about Yeats’s theory that history moves in gyres.
"The Second Coming" in the 21st Century
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This editorial from the New York Times talks about the recent impact of Yeats’s poem.
Poet Biography
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A biography of Yeats and links to many of his poems
The Book of Revelation
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Tons of stuff on the Book of Revelation, including links to the text itself in several translations.