Wallace Stevens' Experimental Language: The Lion in the Lute

By Beverly Maeder

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312213344
• ISBN13: 9780312213343
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.8"

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To better understand the techniques of a modern master

A poet of extraordinary self- consciousness in regard to technique , Stevens was a linguistic innovator of the first rank. This study focuses on his means of creating his own poetic universe through metaphorical means, through seeking of startling means of making resemblances , and defining dissimilarities. Influenced by Wordsworth and Coleridge and the Romantic poetic theoretical obsession with Imagination as central poetic faculty Stevens repeatedly perceives Reality in powerfully transformative and surprising ways. This work reveals much about the particular techniques Stevens uses and will be of great use to any close reader of the master maker, who found moods of mind as movements of the seasons, and who combined in his own musical way, the inner and outer worlds into perplexing harmonies of wider songs and sounds.