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In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens's word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevens's skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevens's poetry, moving from his earliest to his latest work, and includes close readings of three of his remarkable long poems--Esthetique du Mal, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, and An Ordinary Evening in New Haven. The chronological arrangement enables readers to follow Stevens's increasing skill and changing thought in three areas of his "poetry of the earth": the poetry of place, the poetry of eros, and the poetry of belief.Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens shows how, in setting words at play and in conflict, Stevens could upset the usual relations of rhetoric, grammar, and dialectic, and thus the book contributes to the current debate about logical and a-logical uses of language. Cook also places Stevens within the larger context of Western literature, hearing how he speaks to Milton, Keats, and Wordsworth; to such American forebears as Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson; and to T. S. Eliot, his contemporary.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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 record of a life and times. In this critical biography Alan Filreis presents a detailed challenge to this exceptionalist view as he traces two major periods of Stevens's career from 1939 to 1955, the war years and the postwar years. Portraying Stevens as someone whose alternation between cultural comprehension and ignorance was itself characteristically American, Filreis examines the poet's impulse to disguise and compress the very fact of his debt to the actual world. By actual world Stevens meant historical conditions, often in order to impugn his own interest in such externalities as the last resort of a man whose famous interiority made him feel desperately irrelevant. In light of events ranging from the U.S. entry into World War II to the Cold War, Filreis shows how Stevens was driven to make a "close approach to reality" in an effort to reconcile his poetic language with a cultural language. "Wallace Stevens and the Actual World is not only an impressive feat of historical recovery and analysis, but also a pleasure to read. It will be useful to anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and literature during World War II and the Cold War."--Milton J. Bates, Marquette UniversityOriginally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Bloom, como lector privilegiado, no podía orillar la poesía norteamericana del siglo XX, rica y variada como pocas de ese tiempo. Para él dos son los libros capitales de ese período: Las auroras de otoño de Wallace Stevens y El puente de Hart Crane. A partir de ahí traza un árbol genealógico que incluye nombres esenciales de la lírica del pasado siglo: autores ya clásicos como Elizabeth Bihsop, James Merrill o A. R. Ammons junto a otros que muchos lectores descubrirán aquí, como May Swenson, John Hollander o Amy Clampitt, hasta llegar a los aún en activo: John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Jay Wright, William Wadsworth, Anne Carson, Henri Cole y Li-Young Lee.
Bloom, como lector privilegiado, no podía orillar la poesía norteamericana del siglo XX, rica y variada como pocas de ese tiempo. Para él dos son los libros capitales de ese período: Las auroras de otoño de Wallace Stevens y El puente de Hart Crane. A partir de ahí traza un árbol genealógico que incluye nombres esenciales de la lírica del pasado siglo: autores ya clásicos como Elizabeth Bihsop, James Merrill o A. R. Ammons junto a otros que muchos lectores descubrirán aquí, como May Swenson, John Hollander o Amy Clampitt, hasta llegar a los aún en activo: John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Jay Wright, William Wadsworth, Anne Carson, Henri Cole y Li-Young Lee.