Wallace Stevens and the Symbolist Imagination

by Michel Benamou

Book Overview

Michel Benamou's essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens' relation to the French poetic tradition. Mr. Benamou has now collected these essays in one volume, revising and expanding them, and has added a general introduction. He discusses, in turn, Stevens' affinities with and differences from Baudelaire, Laforgue, Mallarme, Apollinaire, the Impressionists, and the Cubists. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062250
• ISBN13: 9780691062259
• Release Date: June 1972
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.