Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things

by James Longenbach

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195070224
• ISBN13: 9780195070224
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"