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200 10$aOn extended wings$eWallace Stevens' longer poems$b[electronic resource]
210   $aCambridge, Mass.$cHarvard University Press$d1969
215   $a1 online resource (x, 334 p.)
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $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.
330   $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.
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999   $aThis 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