The Figure Concealed: Wallace Stevens, Music, and Valeryan Echoes

by Lisa Goldfarb

In a letter of January 1955, Wallace Stevens referred to Paul Valery as a "prodigy of poetry". Although his correspondence reveals that he was long familiar with both Valery's poetry and prose, and scholars from the early days of Stevens criticism to the present -- from Frank Kermode to Harold Bloom and Eleanor Cook -- have acknowledged Valery's importance for Stevens and noted the mark of Valery's poetics on Stevens' prose and poetry, until now there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845194373
• ISBN13: 9781845194376
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.8"