The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens
Title The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens PDF eBook
Author John N. Serio
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 200
Release 2007-01-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139827545

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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.

The Whole Harmonium

The Whole Harmonium
Title The Whole Harmonium PDF eBook
Author Paul Mariani
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 504
Release 2016-04-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1451624395

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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).

Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction

Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction
Title Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction PDF eBook
Author Joseph Carroll
Publisher
Pages 361
Release 1987-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780807113677

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Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory

Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory
Title Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory PDF eBook
Author B. J. Leggett
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1987
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780807865613

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Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory: Conceiving the Supreme Fiction

Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96)

Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96)
Title Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96) PDF eBook
Author Wallace Stevens
Publisher
Pages 1064
Release 1997-10
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN

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Collected Poetry and Prose.

The Silence of Animals

The Silence of Animals
Title The Silence of Animals PDF eBook
Author John Gray
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 242
Release 2013-06-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0374229171

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"An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens
Title Wallace Stevens PDF eBook
Author James Longenbach
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 353
Release 1991
Genre Literature and society
ISBN 0195070224

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'This distinguished book sets forth the Stevens that we will be reading for at least the next three decades: a Stevens in close touch with political and social conditions, a Stevens whose poetry arises from the texture of his times.'-Louis Martz