Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction

by Edward Ragg

Book Overview

Edward Ragg's study is the first to examine the role of abstraction throughout the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career. Ragg's detailed close-readings highlight the poet's absorption of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century painting, as well as the examples of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052119086X
• ISBN13: 9780521190862
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"