num_pages: 287
description: This book is a study of Wallace Stevens as a philosophical poet. The essays explore the implications, the range, and the import of the ideas at work in Stevens' poetry. Wallace Stevens insisted on poetic solutions for the philosophical problems he raised. To understand Wallace Stevens, it is essential to stte and explore the ideas which are the basis for his poetry. In this volume twelve distinguished scholars explore these ideas and their occurrence in Stevens' poems. There are essays by Bernard Heringman, Frank Doggett, Robert Buttel, Samuel French Morse, and Michel Benamou.
language: English
title: The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
titlecomplete: The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Johns Hopkins Press