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Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire
Helen Vendler
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Description for Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire
Paperback. Discusses the difficult style of Wallace Stevens, looks at his major themes, and analyzes, in detail, several of his poems. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 6. Weight in Grams: 128.
In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens’s short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also “words chosen out of desire.”
In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens’s short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also “words chosen out of desire.”
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
86
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Condition
New
Number of Pages
86
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674945753
SKU
V9780674945753
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About Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler (1933–2024) was a leading poetry critic and the author of nineteen books on poets from William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, she contributed regularly to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, and the New Republic. ... Read more
Reviews for Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire
[This book] tells the reader a good deal more about Wallace Stevens’s poetry and Stevens as a poet than many a weighty tome… The shining merit of these lectures is their capacity to elucidate single poems, some familiar anthology pieces, others much less familiar, so that they stand alone as comprehensible entities. The key to this success is the devotion ... Read more