Yeats and violence / Michael Wood.
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...
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| Other title: | Yeats & violence. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Clarendon lectures in English ;
2008. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 243 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199557660 (hbk.) 0199557667 (hbk.) |