Wallace Stevens and the Actual World

by Alan Filreis

Book Overview

The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the record of a life and times. In this critical biography Alan Filreis presents a detailed challenge to this exceptionalist view as he traces two major periods of Stevens's career from 1939 to 1955, the war years and the postwar years. Portraying Stevens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691603766
• ISBN13: 9780691603766
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"