Wallace Stevens, The Making of the Poem

By Frank A. Doggett

Book Overview

Originally published in 1980. Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of Stevens. It examines Stevens' naturalism, his ideas of the self, and the imagination, among other topics. The concepts that emerge from long reading of the poetry of Stevens are slight and basic, but these concepts do accord, even if they never emerge into a coherent philosophy. The accordance is probably a result of Stevens' preference for naturalistic thought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801823242
• ISBN13: 9780801823244
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher