The Genesis of W.B. Yeat's "The Second Coming"
FAIN: FB-13168-77
Patrick J. Keane
Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY 13214-1300)
A study of W.B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" which will explore the immediate genesis of the poem, which was political, and its deep genesis, which was in Yeats's early and developing association of sexuality, bestiality, destructive violence, and astringent joy.