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In Criticism
In 2009, David A. Ross identified "The Second Coming" as "one of the most famous poems in the English language," echoing Harold Bloom who, in 1986, called the piece "one of the most universally admired poems of our century." Both Harold Bloom and Jon Stallworthy speculate that the poem's sphinx draws off the imagery of Percy Shelley's Ozymandias.