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