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100 1 $aVendler, Helen,$d1933-
245 10 $aOn extended wings:$bWallace Stevens' longer poems.
260 $aCambridge, Mass.,$bHarvard University Press,$c1969.
300 $ax, 334 p.$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the two poetries -- The pensive man : the pensive style -- Fugal requiems -- The sausage maker -- The volcano apostrophe, The sea behold -- A duet with the undertaker -- Abecedarium of Finesoldier -- The amassing harmony -- The metaphysical changes -- Douceurs, tristesses -- The total leaflessness -- Naked alpha : epilogue.
520 $aThough 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.
600 10 $aStevens, Wallace,$d1879-1955$xCriticism and interpretation.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aVendler, Helen, 1933-$tOn extended wings.$dCambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1969$w(OCoLC)576687561
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