Record Nr.

UNINA9910791374703321

Autore

Cook Eleanor

Titolo

A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens / / Eleanor Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007

ISBN

1-282-60794-4

9786612607943

1-4008-2764-7

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Disciplina

811.52

Soggetti

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Biography -- Glosses -- Harmonium -- Ideas of Order -- The Man With the Blue Guitar and Other Poems -- Parts of a World -- Transport to Summer -- The Auroras of Autumn -- "The Rock" -- Late Poems -- Appendix How to Read Poetry, Including Stevens -- Short Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Titles

Sommario/riassunto

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, the seductive Nanzia Nunzio. They also spoke--and still speak--to contemporary concerns. Though his work is popular and his readership continues to grow, many readers encountering it are baffled by such rich and strange poetry. Eleanor Cook, a leading critic of poetry and expert on Stevens, gives us here the essential reader's guide to this important American poet. Cook goes through each of Stevens's poems in his six major collections as well as his later lyrics, in chronological order. For each poem she provides an introductory head

note and a series of annotations on difficult phrases and references, illuminating for us just why and how Stevens was a master at his art. Her annotations, which include both previously unpublished scholarship and interpretive remarks, will benefit beginners and specialists alike. Cook also provides a brief biography of Stevens, and offers a detailed appendix on how to read modern poetry. A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens is an indispensable resource and the perfect companion to The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, first published in 1954 in honor of Stevens's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as to the 1997 collection Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose.