| Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Sharpe, T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333650301 ISBN-13: 9780333650301 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| Series: Literary Lives (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 220 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tony Sharpe explores the symbiotic and antagonistic relations between Stevens's literary life and his working life as insurance executive, outlining the personal, historical and publishing contexts that shaped his writing career, and suggesting how awareness of these contexts throws new light on the poems. In this appreciative but not uncritical study, Sharpe tries to see the man behind the mandarin, whilst remaining alert to the challengingly sumptuous austerities of one of America's most significant poets. |
