Wallace Stevens and the Seasons - Couverture rigide

Lensing, George S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807125911 ISBN 13 : 9780807125915

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

A wide-ranging exploration of the most pervasive theme in Stevens's poetry A fruitful pairing of literary and biographical interpretation, Wallace Stevens and the Seasons follows Stevens's poetry through the lens of its dominant metaphor - the seasons of nature - and illuminates the poet's personal life experiences reflected there. George S. Lensing draws upon a vast knowledge of Stevens to argue that his pastoral poetry of the seasons assuaged a profound and persistent loneliness. In his life, Stevens responded to various estrangements - from God, parents, siblings, wife, daughter, business colleagues, friends, and acquaintances - by turning instinctively to the unspoiled natural world that he had loved from his youth. Through the use of the trope of the four seasons, he created a unique, dynamic encounter with that world. In poems of autumn and winter, explored by Lensing in the first half of the book, Stevens seeks unmediated reality in the denuded, snowy landscape outside himself, suppressing his own interfering consciousness. In poems of spring and summer, he re-discovers himself, accepting inventions of the imagination as he seeks to possess the verdant beauty of nature. The seasons thus become the counterpart to the competing emotional forces of a solitary man. From Stevens's first collection to his last poems, Lensing offers clear and detailed examination of the seasonal theme, including extensive discussions of "Autumn Refrain," "The Snow Man," "The World as Meditation," and "Credences of Summer." Lensing's is the most complete synthesis of the poet's life and work yet undertaken.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

George S. Lensing is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth and coauthor of Four Poets and the Emotive Imagination: The Poetry of Robert Bly, James Wright, Louis Simpson, and William Stafford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807125911
• ISBN 13: 9780807125915
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
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