Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens

by Eleanor Cook

Book Overview

In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens's word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevens's skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevens's poetry, moving from his earliest to his latest work, and includes close readings of three of his remarkable long poems--Esthetique du...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069160763X
• ISBN13: 9780691607634
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"