Wallace Stevens
Subtitle: a literary life
By: Tony Sharpe.
Series: Literary lives; Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Macmillan Press; St. Martins's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Stevens, Wallace, -- 1879-1955; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Description: "Wallace Stevens, one of this century's foremost American poets, has been both praised and blamed for the 'difficulty' of his poems, and has bemused those seeking to reconcile the sobriety of his career as an insurance lawyer with the extravagance of his poetry.

Tony Sharpe explores the symbiotic and antagonistic relations between Stevens's literary life and his working life as a senior executive, outlining the personal, historical and publishing contexts which shaped his writing career, and suggesting how awareness of these contexts throws new light on the poems."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-208) and index.