Wallace Stevens : the plain sense of things / James Longenbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longenbach, James, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Stevens, Wallace.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--Political and social views.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Political poetry, American--History and criticism.

Political poetry, American.

War poetry, American--History and criticism.

War poetry, American.

Social problems in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language. However, the idea that Stevens lived a double life, the author maintains, is misleading. This compelling book uncovers what Stevens liked to think of as his ""ordinary"" life, a life in which the demands of politics, economics, poetry, and everyday distractions coexisted, sometimes peacefully and sometimes not. Examining the full scope of Stevens's career (from

Contents:

Contents; 1 Pecksniff and Politics; 2 The Literary Profession; 3 Populism and Imperialism; 4 The Great War and Post-Romantic Ambition; 5 Writing War Poetry; 6 The Fellowship of Men that Perish; 7 Postwar Comedian; 8 Surety and Fidelity Claims; 9 Paris and the Florida Land Boom; 10 Lefts and Lefts; 11 Ideas of Ambiguity; 12 The Politics of Despair; 13 Violence Within, Violence Without; 14 It Must Be Masculine; 15 The Heart of the Debacle; 16 It Must Be Humdrum; 17 The Ultimate Politician; 18 A New Knowledge of Reality; Notes; Index of Works; General Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772675-5

1-280-44104-6

0-19-802331-6

1-4237-3745-8

1-60129-831-5

OCLC:

475956518