“The Second Coming” is a poem written by -

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939):
- Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century.
- He is famous for his use of “Symbolism and Mysticism”.
- He wrote the preamble of Tagore's “Gitanjali” in 1912, which later got the Nobel prize in 1913.
- W.B Yeats got Nobel prize in 1923.
Major Works:
Poems:
- The Stolen Child,
- The wild swans at Coole,
- The Tower,
- The Winding Stair and Other poems,
- The Resurrection,
- The Second Coming,
- The Cat and the Moon,
- Byzantium,
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree,
- Among School Children,
- The Lord of Harts,
- falling of leaves,
- A prayer for My Daughter,
- When You Are Old.

Drama:
- The countess Cathleen,
- Cathleen in Houlihan.

Source: Britannica