On Extended Wings by Helen Vendler
While Wallace Stevenss short poems are perhaps his most anthologized, it is only in the longer works that we find his unique sensibilities on full display. Tracing his development through fourteen poems, Helen Vendler reveals the longer poems as the proving grounds where he tested formal innovations and discovered his own formidable strengths.
[Vendler's] study of Stevens' longer poems is a difficult, brilliant book that everywhere illuminates not only the specific poems under inspection and Stevens' other work, but our ideas of poetry in generalHer own style, rising to its subject, is capacious and inventive, witty and astringent, intensely dedicated to distinguishing Stevens' finest poems, or moments in poems, from his less fine ones. The result is true criticism, and it comes through most vividly in her discussions of 'Man with the Blue Guitar,' 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,' and 'Auroras of Autumn.' A book to be read and reread, it is absolutely essential for the way it sends us back to the poems it so lovingly and sternly anatomizes. * Choice *
[Vendler] has written a superb and badly needed book giving us readings unlikely to be surpassed of Stevens's longer poems…Mrs. Vendler is a commentator almost clairvoyant…Her book ought to be read, with care and gratitude, by every reader of Stevens, for no critic before her has understood so well his major poems. -- Harold Bloom * New York Times Book Review *
This study of Stevens' long poems centers around problems defined by the poetry itself: its style and form, its evolving shape. In treating these problems intelligently, Mrs. Vendler deepens the exploration of Wallace Stevens into penetration. For this reason, among others, On Extended Wings is valuable and special. -- Richard Giannone * Nation *
[Vendler] has written a superb and badly needed book giving us readings unlikely to be surpassed of Stevens's longer poems…Mrs. Vendler is a commentator almost clairvoyant…Her book ought to be read, with care and gratitude, by every reader of Stevens, for no critic before her has understood so well his major poems. -- Harold Bloom * New York Times Book Review *
This study of Stevens' long poems centers around problems defined by the poetry itself: its style and form, its evolving shape. In treating these problems intelligently, Mrs. Vendler deepens the exploration of Wallace Stevens into penetration. For this reason, among others, On Extended Wings is valuable and special. -- Richard Giannone * Nation *
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. She was the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674634367 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674634365 |
| Titel | On Extended Wings |
| Autor | Helen Vendler |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Harvard University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2004-03-19 |
| Seitenanzahl | 334 |
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