This author wrote "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" in a poem that asks, "What rough beastÂ…slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
This author asked "Why should I blame her that she filled my days with misery?" in "No Second Troy" and wrote about "Lion and woman and the Lord knows what" in "The Circus Animal's Desertion." One of his poems describes "sing[ing]Â…of what is past, passing, or to come" after addressing "sages standing in God's holy fire". This author wrote "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" in a poem that asks, "What rough beastÂ…slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" The line "That is no country for old men" begins this author's poem "Sailing to Byzantium." For 10 points, name this author of "The Second Coming".
This author asked "Why should I blame her that she filled my days with misery?"
W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats