Yeats and Violence (The Clarendon Lectures in English 2008)
"Wood's criticism is exuberantly characterful, adventurous in its scholarship, and greedily, giddily speculative." - Leo Robson,New Statesman"[Wood's] generosity in citing the opinions of other critics and poets is such that the reader is immersed in a range of lively arguments and counter-readings inspired by Yeats's work. The poem itself is so carefully examined...that the reader emerges from Wood's book convinced that the text has a life of its own, and deep mysteries to be revealed." --The New Yorker"What Wood is especially good at is starting from the detail and directing his mind out in concentric circles of observance. The force at work is his sense of life, always magnanimous." --Commonweal