“This is an engaging study, instructive in the way it illuminates the devices of repetition, choricism and the extensive depoloyment of aural registers in the poems . . . an absorbing study, fit to delight and vex Stevens’s readers.”—American Literature: The Twentieth Century "While critics have always known that sound was important to Stevens, no one before has explored ... Read moreso thoroughly how crucial sound is to Stevens's poetics, even metaphysics. Rosu makes a much needed contribution to the study of one of our major poets and to poetics as well."—Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, University of Notre Dame Show Less