It is not clear why Yeats called one of his major poems “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen.” He didn’t write it or publish it in that year. He wrote it in the spring of 1921, published it first in The Dial in September 1921 under the title “Thoughts upon the Present State of the World,” included it in a Cuala Press chapbook, Seven Poems and a Fragment (1922), and publishe (...)
November 05, 2010
Books
Critical Hospitality
Yeats and ViolenceMichael WoodOxford University Press, $35, 156 pp.
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