Download or read book Yeats and Violence written by Michael Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.