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xx, 361 pages ; 23 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
"From the journal of Crispin": an early version of "The comedian as the letter C" / Louis L. Martz -- From the journal of Crispin / Wallace Stevens -- "A collect of philosophy": the difficulty of finding what would suffice / Peter A. Brazeau -- Three manuscript endings for "A collect of philosophy" / Wallace Stevens -- Particles of order: the unpublished Adagia / A. Walton Litz -- A selection of Stevens' letters to Wilson E. Taylor / Wallace Stevens -- Of a remembered time / Wilson E. Taylor -- Holidays in reality / Holly Stevens -- A trip in a balloon: a sketch of Stevens' later years in New York / Peter A. Brazeau -- Wallace Stevens in England / George S. Lensing -- How Wallace Stevens saw himself / Richard Ellmann -- Stevens and Keats' "To autumn" / Helen Vendler -- The ways of truth in "Le monocle de mon oncle" / Isabel G. MacCaffrey -- Strange relation: Stevens' nonsense / Irvin Ehrenpreis -- The sound of music of music and sound / John Hollander -- Dwelling poetically in Connecticut / Frank Kermode -- Theoretical and atheoretical in Stevens / J. Hillis Miller -- Toward decreation: Stevens and the "theory of poetry" / Roy Harvey Pearce -- Metaphoric staging: Stevens' beginning again of the "end of the book" / Joseph N. Riddel. |
| Summary |
A collection of biographical and critical essays by such notable scholars as Louis Martz, Irvin Ehrenpreis, and Helen Vendler, Richard Ellmann and Frank Kermode (on Stevens' sources and philosophy, early and late), poet John Hollander (on his music), and daughter Holly Stevens (on "life with father"). Augmenting these useful studies, the editors present several previously unpublished odds and ends--the 128 lines from an early version of "The Comedian as the Letter C," three endings for "A Collect of Philosophy," various entries from notebooks, and 13 business letters which provide glimpses of the poet's mind at work and of his unexpectedly fun-loving, human side |
| Subject |
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. (OCoLC)fst00040329
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Doggett, Frank A.
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Buttel, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0691064148 |
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9780691064147 |
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