Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate

by Harold Bloom

Book Overview

This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at length with the important shorter works as well, showing their complex relations both to one another and to the work of Stevens's precursors, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Emerson, and Whitman. No other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801491851
• ISBN13: 9780801491856
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher