02328oam 2200349 n 450 99624799950331620230828235044.00-674-63436-5(CKB)2560000000326022(MH)000552035-5(EXLCZ)99256000000032602220700330d1969 uy 0engOn extended wingsWallace Stevens' longer poems[electronic resource]Cambridge, Mass.Harvard University Press19691 online resource (x, 334 p.)Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : 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.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.On Extended WingsCriticism, interpretation, etc.fast811/.5/2Vendler Helen1933-291362DLCDLCUKMHLSBOOK996247999503316On extended wings2371732UNISAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress