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CR Episode 260: The Second Coming of Yeats
Feb 24, 2025
01:13:33
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The panel discusses four poems by Yeats, including his most famous—"The Second Coming"—as a way of examining his understanding of a cyclical cosmology, whilst also looking at his depiction of cataclysmic events that influence or constrain free will.
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