The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry

by Thomas Grey

Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. Though Stevens tried hard to separate his poetry from his profession, legal theorist Thomas Grey shows that he did not ultimately succeed. After stressing how little connection appears on the surface between the two parts of Stevens's life, Grey argues that in its pragmatic account of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674284011
• ISBN13: 9780674284012
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"