...in summarizing it, I will quote the original untranslated, the better to guide anyone reading this review whether to make the necessary commitment. The fact that his was a start-up independent ...press altered, too, the power relations inherent in the more commercially based poet/publisher nexus, and it was a significant enablement for Stevens to forego his author's royalties for Ideas of Order: money may be a kind of poetry, but then again, it may not. All these factors mitigated for Stevens the fear of irreversibility that Utard diagnoses, in a coming-to-terms with the fact of the book that continued through Latimer's publication of his subsequent collection, Owl's Clover (published just after Knopf had issued an enlarged trade edition of Ideas of Order). In Parts of a World, she sees Stevens as increasingly at ease with the authority vested in a finished book; its thematic interest in rejectamenta (provoking a fruitful comparison with A. R. Ammons) actually contrasted with his own practice of discarding rough drafts: "Tout est fait pour que le livre éclipse durablement le manuscrit" (127).
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Brogan traces in detail the Wallace Stevens increasingly sophisticated use of similes in order to demonstrate how they satisfied both his own intellectual needs and the needs of modern poetry. While ...thoroughly grounded in the poetry of Stevens, her book also explores the nature of language itself by demonstrating the possibilities, as well as the limitations, of either a romantic or a deconstructive conception of language
Originally published in 1986.
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While the modern interpretation of aesthetics is confined (by the academic division of labour) to art theory and philosophy, its original meaning connects it to fundamental aspects of human action ...and experience: perception via the senses. ...this is also how modern art practice and art theory understand artistic activity. In his famous conceptual analysis of the elements of art - point, line and plane - Kandinsky (1926/1979) argued that there are two ways by which we experience phenomena - the Outer and the Inner. There is a striking analogy between Kandinsky's argument in art theory and the work of the theoretical biologists Maturana and Varela, which has attracted the attention of a number of social scientists, notably the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann (and Morgan, 1986).
The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the ...record of a life and times. In this critical biography Alan Filreis presents a detailed challenge to this exceptionalist view as he traces two major periods of Stevens's career from 1939 to 1955, the war years and the postwar years. Portraying Stevens as someone whose alternation between cultural comprehension and ignorance was itself characteristically American, Filreis examines the poet's impulse to disguise and compress the very fact of his debt to the actual world. By actual world Stevens meant historical conditions, often in order to impugn his own interest in such externalities as the last resort of a man whose famous interiority made him feel desperately irrelevant. In light of events ranging from the U.S. entry into World War II to the Cold War, Filreis shows how Stevens was driven to make a "close approach to reality" in an effort to reconcile his poetic language with a cultural language. "Wallace Stevens and the Actual World is not only an impressive feat of historical recovery and analysis, but also a pleasure to read. It will be useful to anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and literature during World War II and the Cold War."--Milton J. Bates, Marquette University
Originally published in 1991.
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o Dois an indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and Milton. Like them, Stevens shaped a new ...language, fashioning an instrument adequate to describing a completely changed environment of fact, extending perception through his poems to align what Emerson called our "axis of vision" with the universe as it came to be understood during his lifetime, 1879-1955, a span shared with Albert Einstein. Projecting his own imagination into spacetime as "a priest of the invisible," persistently cultivating his cosmic consciousness through reading, keeping abreast of the latest discoveries of Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, and others, Stevens pushed the boundaries of language into the exotic territories of relativity and quantum mechanics while at the same time honoring the continuing human need for belief in some larger order. His work records how to live, what to do in this strange new world of experience, seeing what was always seen but never seen before.
Joan Richardson, author of the standard two-volume critical biography of Stevens and coeditor with Frank Kermode of the Library of America edition of theCollected Poetry and Prose, offers concise, lucid captures of Stevens's development and achievement. Over the ten years of researching her Stevens biography, Richardson read all that he read, as well as his complete correspondence, journals, and notebooks. She weaves the details drawn from this deep involvement into the background of American cultural history of the period. This fabric is further enlivened by her preparation in philosophy and the sciences, creating in these thirteen panels a contemporary version of a medieval tapestry sequence, with Stevens in the place of the unicorn, as it were, holding our attention and eliciting, as necessary angel, individual solutions to the riddles of our existence on this planet spinning and hissing around its cooling star at 18.5 miles per second.
Originally published in 1980. Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of ...Stevens. It examines Stevens' naturalism, his ideas of the self, and the imagination, among other topics. The concepts that emerge from long reading of the poetry of Stevens are slight and basic, but these concepts do accord, even if they never emerge into a coherent philosophy. The accordance is probably a result of Stevens' preference for naturalistic thought.
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