Wallace Stevens' Poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 23, 2001
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780333946787
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; USA; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; American English
First sentence: Wallace Stevens fulfills an unusually casual prophesy made by Ezra Pound about literature, in 1936: "the transition may have been from literary to rhetorical."