Letters Of Wallace Stevens

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520206681

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Letters of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens Pdf

Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Stevens's famous criterion for poetry--"It should give pleasure"--informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer fascinating glimpses of Stevens as family man, insurance executive, connoisseur, and friend. FROM THE BOOK:"Next to the passion flower I love fuchsias, and no kidding. . . . Down among the Pennsylvania Germans there was a race of young men . . . who carved willow fans. These men would take a bit of willow stick about a foot long, peel it and with nothing more than a jackknife carve it into something that looked like a souvenir of Queen Anne's lingerie. The trouble that someone took to invent fuchsias makes me think of these willow fans. However it is a dark and dreary day today and who am I to be frivolous under such circumstances."--from a letter to Wilson Taylor, August 20, 1947 Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Stevens's famous criterion for poetry--"It should give pleasure"--informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer fascinating glimpses of Stevens as family man, insurance executive, connoisseur, and friend. FROM THE BOOK:"Next to the passion flower I love fuchsias, and no kidding. . . . Down among the Pennsylvania Germans there was a race of young men . . . who carved willow fans. These men would take a bit of willow stick about a foot long, peel it and with nothing more than a jackknife carve it into something that looked like a souvenir of Queen Anne's lingerie. The trouble that someone took to invent fuchsias makes me think of these willow fans. However it is a dark and dreary day today and who am I to be frivolous under such circumstances."--from a letter to Wilson Taylor, August 20, 1947

Author : Wallace Stevens (Dichter)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : LCCN:69019401

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Letters of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens (Dichter) Pdf

Author : Wallace Stevens,José Rodríguez Feo
Publisher : Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012894575

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Secretaries of the Moon by Wallace Stevens,José Rodríguez Feo Pdf

The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted Stevens's poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cuban, who quickly became Stevens's "most exciting correspondent." The two shared a Harvard education, both were anxious to see Stevens translated for a Cuban audience, and each had an enduring admiration for Santayana, whose awareness of the cultural tensions between the Northern and Southern hemispheres formed a basis for the protracted argument between Stevens as the practical, Protestant father and the passionate Rodriguez Feo. The Cuban's descriptions of his life at the Villa Olga, of his black-and-white cow Lucera and his mule Pompilio, delighted Stevens, as did his wide-ranging questions and pronouncements of literary matters. Unaware of the well-known Stevens reticence, Rodriguz Feo elicited a more informal, playful response than Stevens's other correspondents. Formal salutations soon gave way to "Dear Antillean," "Dear Wallachio." Coyle and Filreis present the entire extant correspondence between the two men. The fifty-one Rodriguez Feo letters and ten of the numerous Stevens letters are printed here for the first time, and the exchange between the two is unusually complete. The work includes a critical introduction and complete annotation of the letters.

Author : Paul Mariani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451624397

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The Whole Harmonium by Paul Mariani Pdf

An “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. “A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” (Library Journal, starred review), The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen moments. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage, and yet he had his Dionysian side, reveling in long fishing (and drinking) trips to the sun-drenched tropics of Key West. He was at once both the Connecticut businessman and the hidalgo lover of all things Latin. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The complexity of Stevens’s poetry rests on emotional, philosophical, and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through his poems, both early and late. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding poets to read. Biographer and poet Paul Mariani’s The Whole Harmonium “is an excellent, superb, thrilling story of a mind….unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet’s, and as clear as faithfulness allows” (The New Yorker).

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106014603820

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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96) by Wallace Stevens Pdf

Collected Poetry and Prose.

Author : Wallace Stevens,Elsie Viola Kachel Moll Stevens
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570032483

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The Contemplated Spouse by Wallace Stevens,Elsie Viola Kachel Moll Stevens Pdf

Collects the letters of Wallace Stevens to his wife Elsie as they moved through their relationship as friends, to fiancâes, to husband and wife.

Author : Alan M. Klein,Grolier Club,Paul Muldoon,Daniel Halpern,Paul Mariani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 1605830798

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Two American Poets -- Wallace Stevens & William Carlos Williams by Alan M. Klein,Grolier Club,Paul Muldoon,Daniel Halpern,Paul Mariani Pdf

Illuminating the parallel and overlapping careers and relationships of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, the exhibition juxtaposes the two poets with unique material on view for the first time. It provides a remarkable opportunity to better understand the overlapping careers of Stevens and Williams, their development as poets, the progression of their reputations and the development of American modernism.00Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams are widely recognized as two of the towering giants of mid-twentieth-century American poetry, but are rarely thought of together despite their mutual admiration and personal relationship spanning over forty years. Almost exact contemporaries, they met in New York in 1914 at a formative point in their development as poets. These collections of Stevens and Williams, about 250 items assembled over the past twenty years include fascinating and unique items ranging from each of Stevens's and Williams's school days in the 1890s throughout their lives until shortly before Williams's death in 1963. 00Exhibition: Grolier club, New York, USA (16.01.-23.02.2019).

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134251063

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Things Merely Are by Simon Critchley Pdf

This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all, he agues for a 'poetic epistemology' that enables us to think afresh the philosophical problem of the relation between mind and world, and ultimately to cast the problem away. Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the 'mereness' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cinematic eye of Terrence Malick, whose work is discussed at the end of the book.

Author : John N. Serio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827546

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The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio Pdf

Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and appreciate his poetry. A brief biographical sketch anchors Stevens in the real world and illuminates important personal and intellectual influences. The essays following chart Stevens' poetic career and his affinities with both earlier and contemporary writers, artists, and philosophers. Other essays introduce students to the peculiarity and distinctiveness of Stevens' voice and style. They explain prominent themes in his work and explore the nuances of his aesthetic theory. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, this Companion provides all the information a student or scholar of Stevens will need.

Author : Joan Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106008495894

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Wallace Stevens: The later years, 1923-1955 by Joan Richardson Pdf

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307790668

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The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens Pdf

In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the imagination manifesting itself in its domination of words." Stevens proves himself as eloquent and scintillating in prose as in poetry, as he both analyzes and demonstrates the essential act of repossessing reality through the imagination.

Author : Alan Filreis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521453844

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Modernism from Right to Left by Alan Filreis Pdf

A study of relations between American radicalism and modernism in the 1930s, focusing on Wallace Stevens.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486839387

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Harmonium by Wallace Stevens Pdf

The poet's 1923 debut features some of his most famous works, including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," and "Peter Quince at the Clavier."

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674945751

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Wallace Stevens by Helen Vendler Pdf

In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' 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."

Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299115445

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Ariel and the Police by Frank Lentricchia Pdf

In Ariel and the Police, Frank Lentricchia searches through the totalizing desires for power that have built and help to maintain tangible and intangible structures of confinement and purification within, and sometimes as, the house of modernism. And what he finds, in his lyrical effort to redeem the subject for history, is that someone lives there, slyly, sometimes even playfully defiant.