Tag: Literary Criticism

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of W. B. Yeats’ ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Divided into six parts, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ is, along with ‘Easter 1916’, probably W. B. Yeats’s best-known political poem. It is also among his longer and more ambitious works. In this post, we’ll offer a summary and analysis of the poem, taking it […]

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Wallace Stevens’ ‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’ (1946) is one of Wallace Stevens’s finest later poems. In just sixteen lines and eight couplets, Stevens summons the quiet and calm of solitary reading inside a house. You can read ‘The House Was Quiet […]