Long Poems of Wallace Stevens An Interpretive Study

Name: Long Poems of Wallace Stevens An Interpretive Study
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ISBN: 9780521301268

ISBN-10: 0521301262

ISBN-13: 9780521301268

Edition: 1985

Authors: Rajeev S. Patke

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Wallace Stevens is a fascinating and enigmatic poet; the vice-president of an insurance company, a corporate lawyer, an expert on the bond market, and, almost incidentally, one of America's greatest poets. Despite the many books written about him, Stevens remains a difficult poet, whose notorious injunction - 'Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully' - seems to haunt all his work, and especially the long poems. This study presents a close reading of Stevens' seven longest poems: 'The Comedian as the letter C', 'Owl's Clover', 'The Man with the Blue Guitar', 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction', 'Esthtique du Mal', 'The Auroras of Autumn', and 'An Ordinary Evening in New Haven'.…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/8/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Rajeev S. Patke was educated at the University of Poona and Oxford, and is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. He is currently working on a book which develops Asian extrapolations from the writings of Walter Benjamin.



List of tables and figures


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Comedian as the Letter C



Owl's Clover



The Man with the Blue Guitar



Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction



Esthetique Du Mal



The Auroras of Autumn



An Ordinary Evening in New Haven


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index