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On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems

Door Helen Vendler

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#348114-VB42
Titel	On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems
Auteur	Vendler, Helen
Boektype	Paperback
Druk	3e druk
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1971
ISBN10	0674634365
ISBN13	9780674634367
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. She proposes that Stevens 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. Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen 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, b... (Lees verder)ut 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's 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.”
Pagina's	334
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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