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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherCornell University Press
ISBN-100801491851
ISBN-139780801491856
eBay Product ID (ePID)367195
Product Key Features
Book TitleWallace Stevens : the Poems of Our Climate
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year1980
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorHarold Bloom
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight32.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal811/.52
SynopsisThis dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at length with the important shorter works as well, showing their complex relations both to one another and to the work of Stevens's precursors, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Emerson, and Whitman. No other book on Stevens is as ambitious or comprehensive as this one: everyone who writes on Stevens will have to take it into account. The product of twenty years of meditating, thinking, and writing about Stevens, this truly remarkable book is a brilliant extension of Bloom's theories of literary interpretation., This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals...