Wallace Stevens and the realities of poetic language
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
9780415955966, 9780203927861, 0415955963, 0203927869
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Ch. 1. Stevens' Closures
Ch. 2. Motion and Voice
Ch. 3. Rejections: Poetry Against Poetry
Ch. 4. Toward a New Aesthetics: Farewell to Florida
Index of Poems and Other Texts by Wallace Stevens