Wallace Stevens: Poetry and Criticism (Salt Studies in Contemporary Poetry) (Salt Studies in Contemporary Poetry S.) - Softcover

Morris, Tim

9781876857806: Wallace Stevens: Poetry and Criticism (Salt Studies in Contemporary Poetry) (Salt Studies in Contemporary Poetry S.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1876857803 ISBN 13: 9781876857806

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2006

This polemical work by Tim Morris re-examines Stevens' major longer poems and attempts to provide fresh ground for a poet notoriously well-attended in the world of criticism. With close readings of key works, detailed investigation of Stevens' manuscripts and new analysis in light of recent critical thinking, Morris attempts to negotiate Stevens' intentions and the trajectory of his atypical writing life. Above all, this work aims to introduce Stevens to a new generation of readers and take account of his important contributions to poetics and criticism.

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Review:

Tim Morris’s study offers a fresh, and a radical account of Stevens’ major works. It re-opens the question of his aestheticism through a synergy of elegant writing and close reading, that moves with an enviable grace and clarity, out into the wider vistas of Modernist politics, and philosophy. Of evident value to students of Stevens’ poetry, this book is also a suggestive illustration of the varied legacy of Romanticism, and its continuing power to shape our, as well as Stevens’, ‘world of words’. (Geoff Ward)

About the Author:

Tim Morris completed his doctorate at King’s College, University of Cambridge in 2001, and has since worked as a English Tutor at various Cambridge Colleges and as an Associate Tutor in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He has also published five books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in Poetry Review, CCCP Review and Jacket.

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