69 results for '"Wallace Stevens"'

Beginning with a biographical sketch of Stevens, this volume analyzes each of Stevens' major works, emphasizing the larger patterns of his work through detailed readings of representative poems...

The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It emerges in his patterns of speech, in his symbols, and...

McNamara, Peter L.

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish...

This revealing study traces the mechanism of literary evaluation by which the work of Wallace Stevens became a central and revered part of the treasury of modern American poetry. It is a study of...

The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the...

The first new selection of this acclaimed poet’s work in nearly twenty years—now in paperback—is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle,...

This is a study of the development of the middle and later poetry of Wallace Stevens that uses comparisons with the phenomenological methods of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to clarify many of...

In this study Daniel R. Schwarz argues that the narrative and representational aspects of Stevens's poetry have been neglected in favour of readings that stress his word play and rhetoricity. Schwarz...

An essential book for all readers of poetry, and the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet." Originally published in 1954 to honor...

“Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced.” — Library JournalWallace Stevens’s unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called “the essential...

Analyzes the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, and describes their interest in science and technology

Presents eighteen biographical and literary essays on Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde and other notable authors

An incisive portrait of poet Wallace Stevens based on interviews with people who had known him--including family members, friends, business associates, fellow writers, and servants--captures the...

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.Shake Loose My...

In close readings of six major modernist writers, among them Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, and Vladimir Nabokov, Jessica R. Feldman traces the significance of the dandy, not just as historical...

About the Author Joseph Carroll is the author of Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction (1987), Evolution and Literary Theory (1995), Literary Darwinism (2004), and Reading Human Nature (2011). He is...

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...

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our...

“Could it be that Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein met in Elysium and had a son named Geoffrey Nutter?”–John YauBearing the visionary inheritance of ancient Chinese poets and early...