How bleak is it out there? Well, how many politicians are quoting Yeats's "The Second Coming"? And the poet made it that way deliberately: "Early drafts of the poem illustrate Yeats's dedication to universalising his message, as he deletes specific references to the French Revolution and the first world war and replaces terrestrial images of […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM on May 31, 2020