Wallace Stevens by Albert Gelpi
In this volume, seven renowned critics present different views of Wallace Stevens' place in the evolution of Modernist poetry. The essays offer a fresh scrutiny of the poet's work and influence, re-examining the critical consensus that has developed since Stevens first gained the attention of critics in the fifties. The collection traces both the development of Modernist poetics and Stevens' place in it, from the poet's relation to such contemporaries as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore to his influence on current writers such as John Ashbery and Robert Duncan. The contributions examine the cultural influences, or 'context', from which Stevens emerges: the Symbolist and Imagist traditions, the social and political context of the war years, and contemporary movements in the visual arts. Finally, two essays investigate the influence of Stevens on later poets.
' … altogether a worthy addition to Stevens studies' Journal of Modern Literature
Albert Gelpi, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, Stanford University, Bernard O'Donoghue, Emeritus Fellow in English, Wadham College, University of Oxford Albert Gelpi is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature, emeritus at Stanford University. He is author of Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet (1965) and The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet (1975) and editor of The Poet in America: 1650 to the Present, Wallace Stevens:
The Poetics of Modernism, Denise Levertov: Selected Criticism, The Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems of William Everson, and Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose. He was founding editor of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, and has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies,
Chairman of the American Studies Program, and Chairman of the English Department. Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis was published in 1998. With Robert Bertholf he edited The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov (2004) and the collection of essays, Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov:
The Poetry of Politics, the Politics of Poetry (2006).
Bernard O'Donoghue is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. He has published six collections of poetry, including Gunpowder, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and Farmers Cross (2011) which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot
prize. His Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2008. He has published a verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics 2006), and his most recent volume The Seasons of Cullen Church was published by Faber in 2016.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521386999 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521386993 |
| Title | Wallace Stevens |
| Author | Albert Gelpi |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1990-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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