Yeats and Violence

by Michael Wood

The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under a rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'

This is a book about how poetry, seen through the instance of a single poem, seeks to make sense of a turbulent and dangerous world. Poetry must introduce order and shape where there is none, and also, in certain crucial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199557667
• ISBN13: 9780199557660
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.8"