The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

by Lisa Goldfarb and Bart Eeckhout

Book Overview

Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking perspectives. Their case studies demonstrate how music as a temporal art form may affect a poetic of ephemerality, sensuous experience, and affective intensification. Such a poetic, they argue,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031070313
• ISBN13: 9783031070310
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"