![]() ![]() Written in 1919 and published in 1920, “The Second Coming” has become perhaps the most plundered poem in the English language. Yeats was justified in taking the long view. ![]() This will seem little to you with your strong practical sense for it takes fifty years for a poet’s weapons to influence the issue.” I have written of the same thing again & again since. “It was written some sixteen or seventeen years ago & foretold what is happening. Yeats responded instead with a reading recommendation: “If you have my poems by you, look up a poem called ‘The Second Coming’,” he wrote. The 70-year-old Yeats was a Nobel prize-winning poet of immense stature and influence, not to mention Mannin’s former lover, and she asked him to join a campaign to free a German pacifist incarcerated by the Nazis. ![]() I n April 1936, three years before his death, WB Yeats received a letter from the writer and activist Ethel Mannin. ![]()
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