Yeats and Violence

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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"

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