Title: Yeats and 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.
Subjects: History, Violence in literature, In literature, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Political and social views, Literature
Places: Ireland
People: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Time periods: War of Independence, 1919-1921