Stanza My Stone: Wallace Stevens and the Hermetic Tradition

by Leonora Woodman

Through the poetry of Wallace Stevens has been studied from a variety of critical perspectives, most critics share the view that Stevens is a secular poet who refuses religious definitions of man and nature. His major subject, it is thought, is poetry, which in its broadest sense stands as synecdoche for the possibilities that inhere in the mind engaged in creating itself even as it creates its art. This study confirms that Stevens's major concern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911198687
• ISBN13: 9780911198683
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"