Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith

by Adalaide Kirby Morris

Book Overview

The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It emerges in his patterns of speech, in his symbols, and in his poetic forms; it encompasses a critique of Christianity, often wryly humorous and sometimes bitterly satiric; and it results in a theory of poetry that becomes a mystical theology. At the center of this mystical theology, the author finds, is the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069106265X
• ISBN13: 9780691062655
• Release Date: May 1974
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.