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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Main Author: Wood, Michael, 1936-
Other Authors: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Clarendon lectures in English ; 2008.
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