Yeats and violence /
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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| Format: | eBook |
| 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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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191576447 0191576441 0199557667 9780199557660 9780191701726 0191701726 |