Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme--the worth of the imagination--remained with him all his life, and Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description--which must be repetitive--of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles. The author presents here a chronological account of fourteen longer poems that span a thirty-year period, showing, through Stevens' experiments in genre, diction, syntax, voice, imagery, and meter, the inventive variety of Stevens' work in long forms, and providing at the same time a coherent reading of these difficult poems.
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Showing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems
March 19, 2004, Harvard University Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0674634365 9780674634367
|
eeee
|
2
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens Longer Poems
March 12, 1970, Harvard University Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1st edition
0674634357 9780674634350
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
On extended wings: Wallace Stevens' longer poems.
1969, Harvard University Press
0674634357 9780674634350
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4
On extended wings: Wallace Stevens' longer poems.
1969, Harvard University Press
in English
0674634357 9780674634350
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
5 |
aaaa
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created September 26, 2008
- 3 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
April 25, 2024 | Edited by Tom Morris | Merge works |
December 15, 2009 | Edited by WorkBot | link works |
September 26, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from University of Toronto MARC record |