Wallace Stevens: An Anatomy of Figuration

by Eugene Paul Nassar

Book Overview

This book presents for the first time a thorough study of the imagery in Wallace Stevens's poetry and the patterns which these images form. Heretofore, most discussions of Stevens's work presupposed an understanding of the difficult and bizarre surface imagery and dealt mainly with broad generalizations which often left the student of Stevens's poems unsatisfied. The brilliant surface of the poems, the detailed imagery of specific passages, is here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812273338
• ISBN13: 9780812273335
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"