Transport To Summer

Author : Richard Allen Blessing
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815621454
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens’ "Whole Harmonium" written by Richard Allen Blessing and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1970-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Collected poems of Wallace Stevens, first published in 1954, is seen here as a single, unified, grand poem, 'The whole of harmonium,' as Stevens himself once preferred to call it." Bibliography: p. 173-180.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport to Summer written by Wallace Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827647
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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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 2009-03-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, the seductive Nanzia Nunzio. They also spoke--and still speak--to contemporary concerns. Though his work is popular and his readership continues to grow, many readers encountering it are baffled by such rich and strange poetry. Eleanor Cook, a leading critic of poetry and expert on Stevens, gives us here the essential reader's guide to this important American poet. Cook goes through each of Stevens's poems in his six major collections as well as his later lyrics, in chronological order. For each poem she provides an introductory head note and a series of annotations on difficult phrases and references, illuminating for us just why and how Stevens was a master at his art. Her annotations, which include both previously unpublished scholarship and interpretive remarks, will benefit beginners and specialists alike. Cook also provides a brief biography of Stevens, and offers a detailed appendix on how to read modern poetry. A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens is an indispensable resource and the perfect companion to The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, first published in 1954 in honor of Stevens's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as to the 1997 collection Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport to Summer written by Wallace Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801491856
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens written by Harold Bloom and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences, exploring their relationship to one another and to the works of Stevens' precursors.

Author : Lucy Beckett
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521202787
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens written by Lucy Beckett and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974-04-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed critical study of Wallace Stevens identifies the major concerns of his poetry. Lucy Beckett presents Stevens as a contemplative poet, engaged on a long enquiry into the nature of the relationship between the creative imagination and the world it illuminates and recreates.

Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400859662
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens written by Eleanor Cook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Thomas F. Lombardi
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636793
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Stevens and the Pennsylvania Keystone written by Thomas F. Lombardi and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wallace Stevens and the Pennsylvania Keystone represents the definitive work on origins as they appear in Stevens's poetry. Author Thomas Francis Lombardi, a poet himself, traces Stevens's originary influences - place, family, tradition, the feminine, ethnic heritage, and religious roots - against the cosmopolitan influences of Cambridge and New York and demonstrates the extent to which Stevens's formative and early adult years shaped his entire life and influenced the grand sweep of his poetry." "That influence spread itself across Stevens's entire canon, from the early verse through Harmonium, Ideas of Order, Parts of a World, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Transport to Summer, The Auroras of Autumn, The Rock, and finally Opus Posthumous. Though Lombardi acknowledges the importance of the global presence in Stevens's poetry, he argues that the hallmark of the poet's vision is the presence of his Pennsylvania provincialism and the increasing significance he attached to his roots as he grew older." "Stevens's life epitomized a personal and irresistible rite of passage toward origins, a universal odyssey that sensitive people undertake over the course of their lives - the ethnocentric pull toward the native experience. That attraction to his native soil would inform much of the content of his poetry. To this end, he wished to be one with his ancestors for the reason of experiencing a sense of identity with the provincial past, not in spite of, but because of it. Without an adequate understanding of this relationship, no in-depth comprehension of Stevens's poetry seems possible."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jacqueline Vaught Brogan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325194
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Violence Within/the Violence Without written by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), one of the leading poets of the twentieth century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. However, an image persists of Stevens as an aesthete who was politically removed from his times and who also exhibited sexist and racist tendencies. Jacqueline Vaught Brogan offers careful readings from across the Stevens canon to demonstrate that, contrary to such enduring earlier assessments, Stevens's work over the years shows poetic and political changes that merge with his growing ethical concerns. Brogan traces Stevens's evolving poetic practices along three major lines that often intersected. She situates the beginnings of Stevens's development within his early resistance to the pressures of "reality" on the imagination, an artistic stand that pitted him against the "objective" poetry exemplified in the work of William Carlos Williams. Then, in the midst of Stevens's career, World War II moved him forward with new poetic responsibilities both to witness the current world and to guide readers into their future. The emergence of an almost feminist vision defines Stevens's third line of development. Finally, in addition to identifying these developmental stages, Brogan addresses the undercurrent of race throughout Stevens's work. According to Brogan, Stevens not only changed but matured over time. What began as an aesthetic "violence within," or a girding against such "violence without" as social unrest and war, rapidly evolved during Stevens's middle years into a set of perceptions and practices increasingly responsive to his times.

Author : David E. Chinitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111860444X
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Modernist Poetry written by David E. Chinitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRY A Companion to Modernist Poetry A Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text. The first section of the volume reflects the attention to historical and cultural context that has been especially fruitful in recent scholarship. The second section focuses on various movements and groupings of poets, placing writers in literary history and indicating the currents and countercurrents whose interaction generated the category of modernism as it is now broadly conceived. The third section traces the arcs of twenty-one poets’ careers, illustrated by analyses of key works. The Companion thus offers breadth in its presentation of historical and literary contexts and depth in its attention to individual poets; it brings recent scholarship to bear on the subject of modernist poetry while also providing guidance on poets who are historically important and who are likely to appear on syllabi and to attract critical interest for many years to come. Edited by two highly respected and notable critics in the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry boasts a varied list of contributors who have produced an intense, focused study of modernist poetry.