The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry

by Thomas Grey

Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. In this important extension of the recent law-and-literature movement, Grey reveals Stevens as a philosophical poet and implicitly a pragmatist legal theorist, who illustrates how human thought proceeds through "assertion, qualification, and qualified reassertion," and how reason and passion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674284011
• ISBN13: 9780674284012
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"