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Author : Joan Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens: The later years, 1923-1955 written by Joan Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John N. Serio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827545
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens written by John N. Serio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and appreciate his poetry. A brief biographical sketch anchors Stevens in the real world and illuminates important personal and intellectual influences. The essays following chart Stevens' poetic career and his affinities with both earlier and contemporary writers, artists, and philosophers. Other essays introduce students to the peculiarity and distinctiveness of Stevens' voice and style. They explain prominent themes in his work and explore the nuances of his aesthetic theory. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, this Companion provides all the information a student or scholar of Stevens will need.
Author : Glen MacLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110821052X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens in Context written by Glen MacLeod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, who is generally considered one of the great twentieth-century American poets. In thirty-six short essays, an international team of distinguished scholars have created a comprehensive overview of Stevens' life and the world of his poetry. Individual chapters relate Stevens to important contexts such as the large Western movements of romanticism and modernism; particular American and European philosophical traditions; contemporary and later poets; the professional realms of law and insurance; the parallel art forms of painting, music, and theater; his publication history, critical reception, and his international reputation. Other chapters address topics of current interest such as war, politics, religion, race and the feminine. Informed by the latest developments in the field, but written in clear, jargon-free prose, Wallace Stevens in Context is an indispensable introduction to this great modern poet.
Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691049830
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (498 download)
Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens written by Eleanor Cook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Paul Mariani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451624395
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Whole Harmonium written by Paul Mariani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. “A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” (Library Journal, starred review), The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen moments. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage, and yet he had his Dionysian side, reveling in long fishing (and drinking) trips to the sun-drenched tropics of Key West. He was at once both the Connecticut businessman and the hidalgo lover of all things Latin. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The complexity of Stevens’s poetry rests on emotional, philosophical, and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through his poems, both early and late. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding poets to read. Biographer and poet Paul Mariani’s The Whole Harmonium “is an excellent, superb, thrilling story of a mind….unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet’s, and as clear as faithfulness allows” (The New Yorker).
Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674945753
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also "words chosen out of desire."
Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307790665
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Necessary Angel written by Wallace Stevens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the imagination manifesting itself in its domination of words." Stevens proves himself as eloquent and scintillating in prose as in poetry, as he both analyzes and demonstrates the essential act of repossessing reality through the imagination.
Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Harmonium written by Wallace Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wallace Stevens
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ISBN 13 : 9780571237937
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens written by Wallace Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Harmonium, published in 1923, became a landmark in modern American poetry with its startling imagery and meditations on art, reality and imagination. It was followed by Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Transport to Summer and The Necessary Angel. Stevens died in 1955.
Author : Joan Richardson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385497
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book How to Live, What to Do written by Joan Richardson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Live, What to Do is an indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and Milton. Like them, Stevens shaped a new language, fashioning an instrument adequate to describing a completely changed environment of fact, extending perception through his poems to align what Emerson called our “axis of vision” with the universe as it came to be understood during his lifetime, 1879–1955, a span shared with Albert Einstein. Projecting his own imagination into spacetime as “a priest of the invisible,” persistently cultivating his cosmic consciousness through reading, keeping abreast of the latest discoveries of Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, and others, Stevens pushed the boundaries of language into the exotic territories of relativity and quantum mechanics while at the same time honoring the continuing human need for belief in some larger order. His work records how to live, what to do in this strange new world of experience, seeing what was always seen but never seen before. Joan Richardson, author of the standard two-volume critical biography of Stevens and coeditor with Frank Kermode of the Library of America edition of the Collected Poetry and Prose, offers concise, lucid captures of Stevens’s development and achievement. Over the ten years of researching her Stevens biography, Richardson read all that he read, as well as his complete correspondence, journals, and notebooks. She weaves the details drawn from this deep involvement into the background of American cultural history of the period. This fabric is further enlivened by her preparation in philosophy and the sciences, creating in these thirteen panels a contemporary version of a medieval tapestry sequence, with Stevens in the place of the unicorn, as it were, holding our attention and eliciting, as necessary angel, individual solutions to the riddles of our existence on this planet spinning and hissing around its cooling star at 18.5 miles per second.
Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens written by Wallace Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bart Eeckhout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108833292
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The New Wallace Stevens Studies written by Bart Eeckhout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.
Author : George S. Lensing
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807129722
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens and the Seasons written by George S. Lensing and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fruitful pairing of literary and biographical interpretation follows Wallace Stevens’s poetry through the lens of its dominant metaphor—the seasons of nature—and illuminates the poet’s personal life experiences reflected there. From Stevens’s first collection, Harmonium (1923), to his last poems written shortly before his death in 1955, George S. Lensing offers clear and detailed examination of Stevens’s seasonal poetry, including extensive discussions of “Autumn Refrain,” “The Snow Man,” “The World as Meditation,” and “Credences of Summer.” Drawing upon a vast knowledge of the poet, Lensing argues that Stevens’s pastoral poetry of the seasons assuaged a profound and persistent personal loneliness. An important scholarly assessment of a major twentieth-century modernist, Wallace Stevens and the Seasons also serves as an appealing introduction to Stevens.
Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134251068
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Things Merely Are written by Simon Critchley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all, he agues for a 'poetic epistemology' that enables us to think afresh the philosophical problem of the relation between mind and world, and ultimately to cast the problem away. Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the 'mereness' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cinematic eye of Terrence Malick, whose work is discussed at the end of the book.
Author : Alan D. Perlis
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838716519
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens written by Alan D. Perlis and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reasons for Stevens's delight in the act of transformation, the philosophical undertones that the act of transformation suggests, and the symbolic landscape of the "imagined land" that he creates in the combined effort of the poems of transformation. The author has done excellent research into the man and the poet.
Author : James Baird
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421436981
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Dome and the Rock written by James Baird and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968. In The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, James Baird traces the process of Wallace Steven's Grand Poem and the total structure that it accomplished in language. In the words of Professor Baird, "The full art of Stevens is organized with architectural precision. The shape of the mind becomes a building, the framework of which is founded in a willed symmetry of design." In The Dome and the Rock, James Baird exposes the capacity of Wallace Stevens to design his poetry in a manner similar to an architect, and he "reveals the craftsmanship of [Wallace's] acts as builder."
Author : Stefan Holander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135914001
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language written by Stefan Holander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact aesthetic closure; both in the negative terms of expressive impotence and unethical isolation and the positive ones of imaginative and linguistic change. In this respect, the study deals closely with the epistemologically and ethically fraught issue of the ambiguous and volatile role of non-semantic elements and linguistic difficulty in Stevens' language. Assuming that these facets are not exclusive to this period but receive a very clear, and therefore instructive, formulation in it, the discussion outlines some of Stevens' most central tropes for poetic creativity at this stage of his career, suggesting ways in which they came to form part of his later discourse on poetic functionality, when polemical concepts for the imagination, such as "evasion" and "escapism," became central. Stevens' prosody is discussed from within an eclectic analytical framework in which cumulative rhythmics is complemented by traditional metrics as a way of doing justice to his rich, varied and cognitively volatile use of verse language. The expressive potency of prosodic patterning is understood both as an effect of its resistance to semantic interpretation and by assuming a formal drive to interpret them in relation to the semantic and metaphoric staging of individual poems. A poem, in turn, is understood both as a strategic, stylistically deviant response to the challenges of a particular historical moment, and as an attempt to communicate through creating a sense of linguistic resistance and otherness.
