On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems - Couverture souple

Vendler, Helen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674634365 ISBN 13 : 9780674634367

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1969

Synopsis

Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme-the worth of the imagination-remained with him all his life, and Mrs. Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description-which must be repetitive-of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles. The author presents here a chronological account of fourteen longer poems that span a thirty-year period, showing, through Stevens' experiments in genre, diction, syntax, voice, imagery, and meter, the inventive variety of Stevens' work in long forms, and providing at the same time a coherent reading of these difficult poems. She concludes, "Stevens was engaged in constant experimentation all his life in an attempt to find the appropriate vehicle for his expansive consciousness; he found it in his later long poems, which surpass in value the rest of his work"

Biographie de l'auteur

Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0674634365
• ISBN 13: 9780674634367
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346