Letters of Wallace Stevens
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 24, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 960
ISBN-13: 9780520206687
Subjects: Biography: general; Poets, American; Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955; Biography / Autobiography; English; Literature: Classics; USA; Stevens, Wallace,; Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Stevens, Wallace; 1879-1955; 20th century; Correspondence
Description: Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer fascinating glimpses of Stevens as family man, insurance executive, connoisseur, and friend.