Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. In this important extension of the recent law-and-literature movement, Grey reveals Stevens as a philosophical poet a…
"Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. Though Stevens tried hard to separate his poetry from his profession, legal theorist Thomas Grey shows that he did n…
"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 si…
In this book, Eleanor 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. --From publishe…
"Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. Eleanor Cook, a leading critic of poetry and an expert on Stevens, gives us here the essential reader's guide to this important American poet. Cook goes through each of Stev…
Examines trends in American literature since World War II which suggest for the author that certain traditional conceptions of the goal of literary workmanship -- and of the authority and value of perfected achievement -- have fairly completely disintegreated. What Berthoff find…
