The first full-length study of its kind, "The Figure Concealed" explores the multiple parallels between two great, 20th-century poets, Wallace Stevens Paul Valery. Bringing poet s works into conversation, the book focuses on the resonance of Valery s musical ideas in Stevens s poetic theory and practice with a look at the interlacing of their work poetically and philosophically. Stevens s letters, essays, and poems are examined alongside Valery s notebooks, essays, and poems, making this an important contribution to studies of modern poetry that will appeal to all those interested in the...
The first full-length study of its kind, "The Figure Concealed" explores the multiple parallels between two great, 20th-century poets, Wallace Stevens...
This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a Hartford poet and kept gravitating toward New York for nearly all things that mattered to...
This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916...
