Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Metaphysics and the Play of Violence

By Daniel Tompsett

Book Overview

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens' poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138110175
• ISBN13: 9781138110175
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"