Yeats and violence
By: Michael Wood
Contributors: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Series: The Clarendon lectures in English -- 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780199557660
Subjects: History; Violence in literature; In literature; Criticism and interpretation; Poetry; Political and social views
Other titles: Yeats & violence
Description: What happens when civilization crumbles? What apocalyptic events wait in the wings? These are the questions asked by Yeats's poem 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'. Michael Wood explores the life of this poem through its form and historical context, examining how it seeks to make sense of a chaotic world whilst preserving the disorder of experience.
Notes: Includes the poem, Nineteen hundred and nineteen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index.