Wallace Stevens (Magill’s Literary Annual 1992)
At a glance:
- Author: James Longenbach
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Time of Work: 1895-1955
- Setting: United States
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, Politics, Literature, Social issues, Depression, economic, Poetry or poets, War, Realism, Modernism, Apocalypse
- Locales: United States
A new Wallace Stevens emerges during the course of this brilliant and irritating book: Stevens the politically aware (although perhaps not quite politically correct) realist whose major themes and most significant works grew from encounters with the world of work and war. Longenbach draws from letters, reports, and the correlation of events and poems to provide a new reading of Stevens’ works and a new distillation of his interior world. This Stevens was never a poet of the ivory tower but was as fully involved in political events as were the 1930’s leftist critics who supposedly...
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