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Title:
Wallace Stevens, New York, and modernism / edited by Lisa Goldfarb and Bart Eeckhout.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xvi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Homes and haunts--New York.--New York.
Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Knowledge--New York.--New York.
Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--In literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955.
New York, NY.
Other Authors:
Goldfarb, Lisa, editor of compilation.
Eeckhout, Bart, 1964- editior of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a Hartford poet and kept gravitating toward New York for nearly all things that mattered to him privately and poetically: visits to galleries and museums, theatrical and musical performances, intellectual and artistic gatherings, shopping sprees and gastronomical indulgences. Recent criticism of the poet has sought to understand how Stevens interacted with the literary, artistic, and cultural forces of his time to forge his inimitable aesthetic, with its peculiar mix of post-romantic responses to nature and a metropolitan cosmopolitanism. This volume deepens our understanding of the multiple ways in which New York and its various aesthetic attractions figured in Stevens' life, both at a biographical and poetic level"-- Provided by publisher.
"This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a Hartford poet and kept gravitating toward New York for nearly all things that mattered to him privately and poetically: visits to galleries and museums, theatrical and musical performances, intellectual and artistic gatherings, shopping sprees and gastronomical indulgences. Recent criticism of the poet has sought to understand how Stevens interacted with the literary, artistic, and cultural forces of his time to forge his inimitable aesthetic, with its peculiar mix of post-romantic responses to nature and a metropolitan cosmopolitanism. This volume deepens our understanding of the multiple ways in which New York and its various aesthetic attractions figured in Stevens' life, both at a biographical and poetic level."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 24
ISBN:
9780203121931
0203121937
0415899109
9780415899109
OCLC:
(OCoLC)724640949
LCCN:
2012001883
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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