Unexpected Affinities: Modern American Poetry and Symbolist Poetics

by Lisa Goldfarb

Book Overview

The book studies the impact of Stevensian and Valeryan poetics, and symbolist poetics more broadly, on a range of Anglo-American poets in untypical fashion. Pairing poets who are not usually studied in their relation to one another reveals mutuality and dissimilitude. Chapter I looks at Stevens and Valery from the vantage point of the senses as opposed to the more usual lens of their similar cerebral or philosophical temperaments. Although critics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845199472
• ISBN13: 9781845199470
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"