The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study

by Rajeev S. Patke

Book Overview

Wallace Stevens is a fascinating and enigmatic poet; the vice-president of an insurance company, a corporate lawyer, an expert on the bond market, and, almost incidentally, one of America's greatest poets. Despite the many books written about him, Stevens remains a difficult poet, whose notorious injunction - 'Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully' - seems to haunt all his work, and especially the long poems. This study presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521115132
• ISBN13: 9780521115131
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"